Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames
Laboratory have discovered the underlying order in metallic glasses, which may
hold the key to the ability to create new high-tech alloys with specific
properties.
Glass materials may have a far less randomly arranged
structure than formerly thought.
Over the years, the ideas of how metallic glasses form have
been evolving, from just a random packing, to very small ordered clusters, to
realizing that longer range chemical and topological order exists.