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A novel methodology for predicting specific compositions for glass-forming alloys based on efficiently packed atomic cluster selection, liquidus lines, and ab initio calculations is presented. This model has shown applicable adaptation to many known metallic and ceramic oxide glass-forming systems and has led to the discovery of soon to be reported Ag- and Zn-based bulk metallic glasses (BMGs). As a model system, glass formation in the Cu-Mg-Ca ternary system has been assessed using this alloy design methodology, which has led to the discovery of a number of Cu-based BMGs with compositions ranging from Cu-33 to 55 at. pct, Mg-18 to 45 at. pct, and Ca-18 to 36 at. pct. Included in this work are the calculated values of associated cluster binding energies and correlations between physical and thermal properties of these glassy compositions, which show significant physical evidence to support the likely existence of such clusters.
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The authors acknowledge the Australian Research Council for partial funding of this work via the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals (Grant No. CEO561574).
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This article is based on a presentation given in the symposium “Bulk Metallic Glasses VI,” which occurred during the TMS Annual Meeting, February 15–19, 2009, in San Francisco, CA, under the auspices of TMS, the TMS Structural Materials Division, TMS/ASM: Mechanical Behavior of Materials Committee.
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Laws, K.J., Shamlaye, K.F., Wong, K. et al. Prediction of Glass-Forming Compositions in Metallic Systems: Copper-Based Bulk Metallic Glasses in the Cu-Mg-Ca System. Metall Mater Trans A 41, 1699–1705 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-010-0274-7
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