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Viscous Flow of Glass-forming Liquids: A Cluster Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

G. J. Fan ,
E. J. Lavernia  and
H. J. Fecht
G. J. Fan
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
E. J. Lavernia
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
H. J. Fecht
Affiliation:
University of Ulm, Center for Micro- and Nanomaterials, D-89081 Ulm, Germany also at Research Center Karlsruhe, Institute of Nanotechnology, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Abstract

An accurate description of the structure of a glass-forming liquid has eluded investigators, partly due to the dynamic behaviour that is inherent to liquids. The free volume concept provides a useful descriptor of a structural parameter that can be applied to glass-forming liquids. In previous work, we developed a cluster model to account for the viscous flow of glass-forming liquids (G. J. Fan and H. J. Fecht, J. Chem. Phys. 116, 5002 (2002)). In this work, we found that the kinetic fragility of a glass-forming liquid is quantitatively connected with its entropy of fusion ΔSf, the value of its melting point Tm, and the structures of interfaces between clusters. We will demonstrate that the proposed cluster model is consistent with an energy landscape model of the glass transition. On the basis of this suggestion, glass-forming liquids, consisting of nanometer-sized clusters, may be responsible for the observed similarity in the mechanical properties between metallic glasses and nanostructured metals.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 806: Symposium MM – Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Metals , 2003 , MM5.4
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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