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Influence of cooling rate on the structure and properties of a Cu–Zr–Ti–Ag glassy alloy

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The influence of the cooling rate on the structure, microhardness, relaxation, and devitrification behavior of Cu44Ag15Zr36Ti5 glassy alloy on heating is studied in the present work. According to transmission electron microscopy investigations, the structures of Cu44Ag15Zr36Ti5 glassy ribbon and bulk samples are somewhat different. The structure of the ribbon samples is amorphous while, the nanoscale clusters of the crystalline phase (highly ordered regions) are formed in the bulk samples. It is reflected in the shift of the x-ray diffraction peak, in the magnitude of the heat of structure relaxation and crystallization, as well as in the change in the Vickers microhardness. An analysis of the cooling curve is also performed.

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This work was supported by the Research and Development Project on Advanced Metallic Glasses, Inorganic Materials and Joining Technology as well as by Grant-in-Aid “Priority Area on Science and Technology of Microwave-Induced, Thermally Non-Equilibrium Reaction Field” No. 18070001 from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

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    Dmitri V. Louzguine-Luzgin, Takanobu Saito & Akihisa Inoue

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  3. Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Tohoku University, Aramaki, Aoba, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan

    Junji Saida

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Louzguine-Luzgin, D.V., Saito, T., Saida, J. et al. Influence of cooling rate on the structure and properties of a Cu–Zr–Ti–Ag glassy alloy. Journal of Materials Research 23, 515–522 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2008.0066

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