The dynamic viscosity of Al-Yb and Al-Ni-Yb superheated melts was measured using a torsional oscillation viscometer. The results show that the temperature dependence of viscosity fits the Arrhenius law well and the fitting factors are calculated. The amorphous ribbons of these alloys were produced by the melt spinning technique and the thermal properties were characterized by using a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). E (the activation energy for viscous flow), which reflects the change rate of viscosity, has a good negative relation with the GFA in both Al-Yb and Al-Ni-Yb systems. However, there is no direct relation between liquidus viscosity (ηL) and GFA. The superheated fragility M can predict GFA in Al-Yb or Al-Ni-Yb alloy system.
JIA Ran, BIAN XiuFang, Lü XiaoQian, SONG KaiKai & LI XueLian Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China
The fragility of superheated melts, M, for 13 kinds of metallic alloys has been evaluated from the data of the dynamic viscosity above their liquidus temperatures. The authors find that the glass forming ability of metallic melts depends on the fragility of superheated melts rather than on the value of viscosity. In the present work the value of fragility is less than 1 for good glass-forming melts but more than 1 for the other melts. The variation rate of atomic coordination number with temperature indicates clearly the relaxation rate of molten structures. The fragility of superheated melts is found in good agreement with the variation rate of the atomic coordination number with temperature.
BIAN XiuFang, QIN JingYu & QIN XuBo Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China
The antibacterial effect of Fe-based,Ni-based and Cu-based metallic glasses has been studied in this research.All test metallic glasses were found to inhibit growth of Esherichia coli.The optical density value of E.coli flocculation exposed to metallic glasses,from which the number of bacteria was determined,was 65% lower than that of the match group,and 57% lower than that of the ferrite group.Moreover,the antibacterial effect was not significantly different(σ=0.05) between Cu-based,Ni-based and Fe-based metallic glasses.These results extend our understanding of the antibacterial effect of metallic antibacterial materials,and suggest new applications for metallic glasses.
The amorphous Fe78Si9B13 alloy was used as a heterogeneous Fenton catalyst in the process of phenol degradation.The influences of main operating parameters such as reaction temperature,catalyst amount,hydrogen peroxide dosage and initial pH of solution on phenol degradation rate were investigated.The maximum mineralization of phenol was achieved at 60°C,6 g/L Fe78Si9B13, 0.31 mol/L hydrogen peroxide,with an initial pH of 2.5.More than 99%of phenol was completely removed under the optimum conditions within 10 min for a solution containing 1000 mg/L of phenol.Batch experiments for solutions containing phenol con- centrations ranging from 50 to 2000 mg/L were investigated under the above conditions and the same excellent degradation rate was obtained.The Fe78Si9B13 showed better catalytic activity than iron powder and Fe 2+ .Addition of n-butannol(hydroxyl radical scavenger)decreased the degradation rate of phenol,which demonstrates that hydroxyl radicals were mainly responsible for the removal of phenol.We demonstrated that phenol may be degraded by hydroxyl radicals decomposed by hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Fe78Si9B13 and illustrated the reaction mechanism for this process.This amorphous alloy exhibited high stability in recycling experiments and showed excellent reuse performance even after continuous operations of 8 cycles.
The glass-forming ability and the thermal stability of Cu45Zr45AI5Ni5 metallic glass were systematically investigated by the differential scanning calorimetry. The activation energies for the glass transition and the onset crystallization and the crystallization peak were calculated to be 255.1, 308.7 and 311.5 kJ/mol, respectively, while the corresponding liquid fragility was determined to be 23.4. By controlling the casting process, Cu45Zr45AI5Ni5 bulk metallic glass composite with the presence of ductile B2 CuZr phase was fabricated. The composite shows a pronounced plastic strain of 6.8 ~ 0.05% with obvious work hardening, which results from the formation of multiple shear bands and the deformation-induced martensitic transformation.
Differences in the thermodynamic functions between the liquid and crystalline states of La-based bulk metallic glasses alloys were calculated with the specific heat capacity Cp and the fusion heat ΔHf,which we measured. Fragility indexes having different thermodynamic definitions were calculated from the temperature dependence of excess entropy ΔSliq-cry. It is ambiguous for La-based glass-forming liquid to evaluate fragility from the intercepts of ΔSliq-cry-temperature curves. We found that the thermodynamic fragility MΔS,denoted ΔS,decreases at the onset melting temperatures Tm rather than at glass transition temperatures Tg,and relates linearly with the kinetic fragility m. The correlations between thermodynamic fragility and kinetic fragility are discussed within the frameworks of the Adam-Gibbs relationship and potential energy landscape theory.
Effects of cooling rate on thermal expansion of Cu49Hf42Al9 metallic glass were studied. Five types of amorphous samples with different sizes were prepared in order to get a broad range of cooling rates （from 102 to 107 K/s）. The average thermal expansion coefficients （αaver） of as-quenched samples range from 6.14×10-6 to 9.20×10-6 K-1. When the temperature is below the glass transformation temperature （Tg）, αaver of as-quenched samples has a negative correlation with cooling rate; the values of αaver of annealed and crystallized samples are closed to each other. The results indicate that the amount and motion of free volume play important roles in thermal expansion of metallic glasses.
