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SUBMITTER: Kang DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4044622 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20140604
Glass is a freezing phase of a deeply supercooled liquid. Despite its simple definition, the origin of glass forming ability (GFA) is still ambiguous, even for binary Cu-Zr alloys. Here, we directly study the stability of the supercooled Cu-Zr liquids where we find that Cu64Zr36 at a supercooled temperature shows deeper undercoolability and longer persistence than other neighbouring compositions with an equivalent driving Gibbs free energy. This observation implies that the GFA of the Cu-Zr allo ...[more]