It has been widely accepted that spherical per- iodicity generally dominates liquid and amorphous structure formation, where atoms tend to gather near spherically peri- odic shells according to Friedel oscillation. He...It has been widely accepted that spherical per- iodicity generally dominates liquid and amorphous structure formation, where atoms tend to gather near spherically peri- odic shells according to Friedel oscillation. Here it is revealed that the same order is just hidden in the atomic global packing modes of the crystalline phases relevant to bulk metallic glasses. Among the multiple nearest-neighbor dusters devel- oped from all the non-equivalent atomic sites in a given phase, there always exists a principal duster, centered by which the spherical periodicity, both topologically and chemically, is the most distinct. Then the principal dusters plus specific glue atoms just constitute the cluster-plus-glue-atom structural units shared by both metallic glasses and the corresponding crystalline phases. It is further pointed out that the spherical periodicity order represents the common structural homology of crystalline and amorphous states in the medium-range through scrutinizing all binary bulk-glass-relevant phases in Cu-（Zr, Hf）, Ni-（Nb, Ta）, Al-Ca, and Pd-Si systems.展开更多
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文摘It has been widely accepted that spherical per- iodicity generally dominates liquid and amorphous structure formation, where atoms tend to gather near spherically peri- odic shells according to Friedel oscillation. Here it is revealed that the same order is just hidden in the atomic global packing modes of the crystalline phases relevant to bulk metallic glasses. Among the multiple nearest-neighbor dusters devel- oped from all the non-equivalent atomic sites in a given phase, there always exists a principal duster, centered by which the spherical periodicity, both topologically and chemically, is the most distinct. Then the principal dusters plus specific glue atoms just constitute the cluster-plus-glue-atom structural units shared by both metallic glasses and the corresponding crystalline phases. It is further pointed out that the spherical periodicity order represents the common structural homology of crystalline and amorphous states in the medium-range through scrutinizing all binary bulk-glass-relevant phases in Cu-（Zr, Hf）, Ni-（Nb, Ta）, Al-Ca, and Pd-Si systems.
