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Metallic glasses

The changing faces of disorder

Nature Materials volume 6, pages 181–182 (2007)Cite this article

Ice, silicon and oxide glasses can show amorphous phases of distinct densities. Based on changes in atomic bond lengths, a similar polyamorphism has now been observed in structurally different metallic glasses.

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Figure 1: Polyamorphism in Ce55Al45.

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