Tunable Tensile Ductility of Metallic Glasses with Partially Rejuvenated Amorphous Structures

On the competition between synchronous oxidation and preferential oxidation in Cu-Zr-Al metallic glasses

“…Amorphous alloys have demonstrated exceptional mechanical, chemical and biochemical properties, due to the structural and compositional homogeneity as compared to their crystalline counterparts. Therefore, amorphous alloys are considered as a promising new family of structural and functional materials [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Amorphous Cu-Zr-Al alloys are one of the most attractive amorphous alloys, because of their very high glass forming ability (GFA) and high formability [8][9][10][11][12][13], which makes them especially suitable for the fabrication of micro/nano-sized components [14].…”