Superior Tensile Ductility in Bulk Metallic Glass with Gradient Amorphous Structure

Over centuries, structural glasses have been deemed as a strong yet inherently ‘brittle’ material due to their lack of tensile ductility. However, here we report bulk metallic glasses exhibiting both a high strength of ~2 GPa and an unprecedented tensile elongation of 2–4% at room temperature. Our e...

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Main Authors: Wang, Q., Yang, Y., Jiang, H., Liu, C. T., Ruan, H. H., Lu, J.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996486/