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Role of different factors in the glass-forming ability of binary alloys

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In the present work, we discuss the glass-forming ability of various binary alloys in which the glassy phase was not formed even by melt spinning technique with high cooling rate of the melt up to 1 MK/s (some consisted of partly glassy phase), though by commonly accepted guidelines, these alloys could be as good glass-formers as many other binary glasses. The alloys studied belong to binary systems with multiple eutectics; the constituent elements have a negative enthalpy of mixing, and a significant variability of atomic size differences is observed from system to system. The results indicate the necessity of taking into account simultaneously various factors influencing the glass-forming ability including melt fragility.

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This work was supported by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan and by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the framework of Increase Competitiveness Program of NUST « MISiS » (№ К2-2014-013). The authors sincerely thank Daniel Miracle and Kevin Laws for their critical comments.

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  1. WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Aoba-Ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan

    D. V. Louzguine-Luzgin & A. R. Yavari

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China

    N. Chen

  3. National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”, Moscow, 119049, Russia

    A. Yu. Churymov, L. V. Louzguina-Luzgina & V. I. Polkin

  4. Dipartimento di Chimica, IFM Università di Torino, Turin, Italy

    L. Battezzati

  5. SIMAP-CNRS, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, BP 75, St-Martin-d’Hères Campus, 38402, Saint-Martin-d’Hères, France

    A. R. Yavari

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Louzguine-Luzgin, D.V., Chen, N., Churymov, A.Y. et al. Role of different factors in the glass-forming ability of binary alloys. J Mater Sci 50, 1783–1793 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-014-8741-y

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