Formation and Evolution of Icosahedron during Relaxation of Amorphous Ca₇Mg₃ Alloy

Abstract

The molecular dynamics simulation studies on the microstructure evolution properties of amorphous Ca7Mg3 alloy during the isothermal annealing have been performed. The simulated structure factor S(q) of Ca7Mg3 is well agreed with the experimental data. Results indicate that the icosahedron structure plays dominate role in the structure transformation, and the smaller Mg atoms are much more probable to be the central atoms of the basic clusters of icosahedron.