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Cryogenic rejuvenation

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Thermal cycling of a metallic glass to cryogenic temperatures has been found to cause atomic-scale structural rejuvenation.

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Figure 1: Heterogeneous thermal expansion coefficient.
Figure 2: Affine and non-affine deformation.

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Hufnagel, T. Cryogenic rejuvenation. Nature Mater 14, 867–868 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4394

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