Ir-Ni-Ta metallic glasses(MGs)exhibit an array of superior high-temperature properties,making them attractive for applications at high temperatures or in harsh environments.However,Ir-Ni-Ta bulk MGs are quite brittle ...Ir-Ni-Ta metallic glasses(MGs)exhibit an array of superior high-temperature properties,making them attractive for applications at high temperatures or in harsh environments.However,Ir-Ni-Ta bulk MGs are quite brittle and often fracture catastrophically even before plastic yielding,significantly undercutting their high-strength advantage.Here,we show that the Ir-Ni-Ta MGs are not intrinsically brittle,but rather malleable when the feature size is reduced to micro/nano-scales.All tested Ir-Ni-Ta MG micropillars with a diameter ranging from~500 nm to~5μm display a large plastic strain above 25%(the maximum up to 35%),together with a yield strength up to 7 GPa,well exceeding the strength recorded in most metallic materials.The intrinsic shear stability of Ir-Ni-Ta MGs,as characterized by the normalized shear displacement during a shear event,is much larger than those malleable Zr-and Cu-based MGs.Our results suggest that Ir-Ni-Ta MGs are excellent candidates for micro/nanoscale structural applications used at high-temperature or extreme conditions.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan(2018YFA0703603)Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research,China(2019B030302010)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51822107,11790291 and 61888102)the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB30000000)。
文摘Ir-Ni-Ta metallic glasses(MGs)exhibit an array of superior high-temperature properties,making them attractive for applications at high temperatures or in harsh environments.However,Ir-Ni-Ta bulk MGs are quite brittle and often fracture catastrophically even before plastic yielding,significantly undercutting their high-strength advantage.Here,we show that the Ir-Ni-Ta MGs are not intrinsically brittle,but rather malleable when the feature size is reduced to micro/nano-scales.All tested Ir-Ni-Ta MG micropillars with a diameter ranging from~500 nm to~5μm display a large plastic strain above 25%(the maximum up to 35%),together with a yield strength up to 7 GPa,well exceeding the strength recorded in most metallic materials.The intrinsic shear stability of Ir-Ni-Ta MGs,as characterized by the normalized shear displacement during a shear event,is much larger than those malleable Zr-and Cu-based MGs.Our results suggest that Ir-Ni-Ta MGs are excellent candidates for micro/nanoscale structural applications used at high-temperature or extreme conditions.
