The amorphization of alloys is of both broad scientific interests and engineering significance.Despite considered as an efficient strategy to regulate and even achieve record-breaking properties of metallic materials,...The amorphization of alloys is of both broad scientific interests and engineering significance.Despite considered as an efficient strategy to regulate and even achieve record-breaking properties of metallic materials,a facile and rapid method to trigger solid-state amorphization is still being pursued.Here we report such a method to utilize ultrasonic vibration to trigger amorphization of intermetallic compound.The ultrasonic vibrations can cause tunable amorphization at room temperature and low stress(2 MPa)conveniently.Remarkably,the ultrasonic-induced amorphization could be achieved in 60 s,which is 360 times faster than the ball milling(2.16×10^(4) s)with the similar proportion of amorphization.The elements redistribute uniformly and rapidly via the activated short-circuit diffusion.Both experimental evidences and simulations show that the amorphous phase initiates and expands at nanograin boundaries,owing to the induction of lattice instability.This work provides a groundbreaking strategy for developing novel materials with tunable structures and properties.展开更多
基金financially supported by the Key Basic and Applied Research Program of Guangdong Province,China(No.2019B030302010)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52122105,51971150,51871157)+3 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFA0703605)the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12072344)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciencessupported by the Beijing Electron Positron Collider(BEPC)project(No.2020-BEPC-PT-004661).
文摘The amorphization of alloys is of both broad scientific interests and engineering significance.Despite considered as an efficient strategy to regulate and even achieve record-breaking properties of metallic materials,a facile and rapid method to trigger solid-state amorphization is still being pursued.Here we report such a method to utilize ultrasonic vibration to trigger amorphization of intermetallic compound.The ultrasonic vibrations can cause tunable amorphization at room temperature and low stress(2 MPa)conveniently.Remarkably,the ultrasonic-induced amorphization could be achieved in 60 s,which is 360 times faster than the ball milling(2.16×10^(4) s)with the similar proportion of amorphization.The elements redistribute uniformly and rapidly via the activated short-circuit diffusion.Both experimental evidences and simulations show that the amorphous phase initiates and expands at nanograin boundaries,owing to the induction of lattice instability.This work provides a groundbreaking strategy for developing novel materials with tunable structures and properties.
