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Metallic glasses

Damage tolerance at a price

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Metallic glasses are strong but can be brittle. The discovery of a metallic glass that also shows a high toughness against fracture is remarkable, and establishes metallic glasses, at least those based on noble metals, as materials with the highest known damage tolerance.

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Figure 1: Fracture toughness in a metallic glass.

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  1. A. Lindsay Greer is in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK. alg13@cam.ac.uk,

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