Accessing ultrastable glass via a bulk transformation
Abstract As a medium to understand the nature of glass transition, ultrastable glasses have garnered increasing attention for their significance in fundamental science and technological applications. Most studies have produced ultrastable glasses through a surface-controlled process using physical v...
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| description | Abstract As a medium to understand the nature of glass transition, ultrastable glasses have garnered increasing attention for their significance in fundamental science and technological applications. Most studies have produced ultrastable glasses through a surface-controlled process using physical vapor deposition. Here, we demonstrate an approach to accessing ultrastable glasses via the glass-to-glass transition, a bulk transformation that is inherently free from size constraints and anisotropy. The resulting ultrastable glass exhibits a significantly enhanced density (improved by 2.3%), along with high thermodynamic, kinetic, and mechanical stability. Furthermore, we propose that this method of accessing ultrastable glasses is general for metallic glasses, based on the examination of the competitive relationship between the glass-to-glass transition and crystallization. This strategy is expected to facilitate the proliferation of the ultrastable glass family, helping to resolve the instability issues of glass materials and devices and deepen our understanding of glasses and the glass transition. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-271b10b3c31841bfa372916b9ea828912025-01-12T12:31:41ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232025-01-0116111010.1038/s41467-024-55367-8Accessing ultrastable glass via a bulk transformationHengtong Bu0Hengwei Luan1Jingyi Kang2Jili Jia3Wenhui Guo4Yunshuai Su5Huaping Ding6Hsiang-Shun Chang7Ranbin Wang8You Wu9Lingxiang Shi10Pan Gong11Qiaoshi Zeng12Yang Shao13Kefu Yao14School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversityState Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and TechnologySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversityState Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyCenter for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced ResearchSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversitySchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua UniversityAbstract As a medium to understand the nature of glass transition, ultrastable glasses have garnered increasing attention for their significance in fundamental science and technological applications. Most studies have produced ultrastable glasses through a surface-controlled process using physical vapor deposition. Here, we demonstrate an approach to accessing ultrastable glasses via the glass-to-glass transition, a bulk transformation that is inherently free from size constraints and anisotropy. The resulting ultrastable glass exhibits a significantly enhanced density (improved by 2.3%), along with high thermodynamic, kinetic, and mechanical stability. Furthermore, we propose that this method of accessing ultrastable glasses is general for metallic glasses, based on the examination of the competitive relationship between the glass-to-glass transition and crystallization. This strategy is expected to facilitate the proliferation of the ultrastable glass family, helping to resolve the instability issues of glass materials and devices and deepen our understanding of glasses and the glass transition.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55367-8 |
| spellingShingle | Hengtong Bu Hengwei Luan Jingyi Kang Jili Jia Wenhui Guo Yunshuai Su Huaping Ding Hsiang-Shun Chang Ranbin Wang You Wu Lingxiang Shi Pan Gong Qiaoshi Zeng Yang Shao Kefu Yao Accessing ultrastable glass via a bulk transformation Nature Communications |
| title | Accessing ultrastable glass via a bulk transformation |
| title_full | Accessing ultrastable glass via a bulk transformation |
| title_fullStr | Accessing ultrastable glass via a bulk transformation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accessing ultrastable glass via a bulk transformation |
| title_short | Accessing ultrastable glass via a bulk transformation |
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| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55367-8 |
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