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Ultrafast extreme rejuvenation of metallic glasses by shock compression

G. Ding,G. Ding,Chang Li,Alessio Zaccone,Alessio Zaccone,Wen-Peng Wang,Hechang Lei,F. Jiang,Z. Ling,Minqiang Jiang

Published 2019 in Science Advances

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Extreme rejuvenation of bulk metallic glasses is successfully achieved in the ever-known shortest time scale of about 365 ns. Structural rejuvenation of glasses not only provides fundamental insights into their complicated dynamics but also extends their practical applications. However, it is formidably challenging to rejuvenate a glass on very short time scales. Here, we present the first experimental evidence that a specially designed shock compression technique can rapidly rejuvenate metallic glasses to extremely high-enthalpy states within a very short time scale of about 365 ± 8 ns. By controlling the shock stress amplitude, the shock-induced rejuvenation is successfully frozen at different degrees. The underlying structural disordering is quantitatively characterized by the anomalous boson heat capacity peak of glasses. A Deborah number, defined as a competition of time scales between the net structural disordering and the applied loading, is introduced to explain the observed ultrafast rejuvenation phenomena of metallic glasses.

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