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Tang H, Cheng Y, Yuan X, Zhang K, Kurnosov A, Chen Z, Xiao W, Jeppesen HS, Etter M, Liang T, Zeng Z, Wang F, Fei H, Wang L, Han S, Wang MS, Chen G, Sheng H, Katsura T. Toughening oxide glasses through paracrystallization. NATURE MATERIALS 2023; 22:1189-1195. [PMID: 37550568 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01625-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/04/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
Abstract
Glasses, unlike crystals, are intrinsically brittle due to the absence of microstructure-controlled toughening, creating fundamental constraints for their technological applications. Consequently, strategies for toughening glasses without compromising their other advantageous properties have been long sought after but elusive. Here we report exceptional toughening in oxide glasses via paracrystallization, using aluminosilicate glass as an example. By combining experiments and computational modelling, we demonstrate the uniform formation of crystal-like medium-range order clusters pervading the glass structure as a result of paracrystallization under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions. The paracrystalline oxide glasses display superior toughness, reaching up to 1.99 ± 0.06 MPa m1/2, surpassing any other reported bulk oxide glasses, to the best of our knowledge. We attribute this exceptional toughening to the excitation of multiple shear bands caused by a stress-induced inverse transformation from the paracrystalline to amorphous states, revealing plastic deformation characteristics. This discovery presents a potent strategy for designing highly damage-tolerant glass materials and emphasizes the substantial influence of atomic-level structural variation on the properties of oxide glasses.
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- Hu Tang
- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Synergetic Extreme Condition High-Pressure Science Center, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies & Shenzhen Engineering Research Center for Frontier Materials Synthesis at High Pressures, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Advanced Casting Technologies, MIIT Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallic and Intermetallic Materials Technology, Engineering Research Center of Materials Behavior and Design, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Light+X Science and Technology, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
- State Key Lab of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China
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- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
- School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies & Shenzhen Engineering Research Center for Frontier Materials Synthesis at High Pressures, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Advanced Casting Technologies, MIIT Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallic and Intermetallic Materials Technology, Engineering Research Center of Materials Behavior and Design, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China.
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
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- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China
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Drewitt JWE. Liquid structure under extreme conditions: high-pressure x-ray diffraction studies. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021; 33:503004. [PMID: 34544063 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac2865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Under extreme conditions of high pressure and temperature, liquids can undergo substantial structural transformations as their atoms rearrange to minimise energy within a more confined volume. Understanding the structural response of liquids under extreme conditions is important across a variety of disciplines, from fundamental physics and exotic chemistry to materials and planetary science.In situexperiments and atomistic simulations can provide crucial insight into the nature of liquid-liquid phase transitions and the complex phase diagrams and melting relations of high-pressure materials. Structural changes in natural magmas at the high-pressures experienced in deep planetary interiors can have a profound impact on their physical properties, knowledge of which is important to inform geochemical models of magmatic processes. Generating the extreme conditions required to melt samples at high-pressure, whilst simultaneously measuring their liquid structure, is a considerable challenge. The measurement, analysis, and interpretation of structural data is further complicated by the inherent disordered nature of liquids at the atomic-scale. However, recent advances in high-pressure technology mean that liquid diffraction measurements are becoming more routinely feasible at synchrotron facilities around the world. This topical review examines methods for high pressure synchrotron x-ray diffraction of liquids and the wide variety of systems which have been studied by them, from simple liquid metals and their remarkable complex behaviour at high-pressure, to molecular-polymeric liquid-liquid transitions in pnicogen and chalcogen liquids, and density-driven structural transformations in water and silicate melts.
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- James W E Drewitt
- School of Physics, University of Bristol, H H Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TL, United Kingdom
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