Metallic glass roadmap

Abstract Metallic glasses (MGs) that mainly made up of metallic elements are a new member of the glassy materials family. This new kind of glass combines the characteristics of liquids and solids, glasses and metals, making it fascinating to both scientists and industrialists. With the discovery of more and more systems, MG is becoming one of the most active research field in metallic materials, and some concepts and technologies derived from MGs also facilitate the development of other materials from quasi-crystals to high entropy alloys. MGs have now been successfully used in aerospace, robotics, medicine, consumer electronics, etc. and the practical applications of MGs are still growing. On the other hand, the diverse properties and the unique structure of the MGs render them ideal models to study major open issues including the structural model of disordered materials, glass transition, collective motion and energy landscape. However, understanding the emerging properties and phenomena of MGs still poses enormous challenges, which has stimulated a wealth of efforts, including the development of new experimental approaches, the synthesis of systems with tailored properties, and the advancements in experimental techniques, theoretical models, and numerical simulations. In this Roadmap, we try to provide a broad overview of recent and potential future activities in the MG field, and present a roadmap for the development and applications of MGs by gathering contributions form scientists with diverse backgrounds, illustrating the major challenges and discussing the latest technology and strategy to tackle these challenges with experts covering various developments in general concepts, synthesis and characterisation, and theoretical and simulation methods.

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Materials Futures
Published
2025-04-23
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https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5724/adcfb6
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9
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Manufacturing Process and Optimization
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Metallic glass roadmap

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Metallic glass roadmap

X S Wang, Xilei Bian, Jiang Ma, Yuhan Shen, Juntao Huo, Shiyun Zhang, Zhenwei Wu, Yu Tong, Zhen Lu, Rui Zhao, Zhengwang Zhu, Shujie Pang, Yuan‐Chao Hu, Chang Zhou, Zheng Wang, Yitao Sun, Yanjun Wang, Hu-Yang Li, Shuai Ren, H. Y. Bai, Sinan Liu, Jianhua Zhou, Heng Kang, Huaping Zhang, Haibo Ke, Lijian Song, Chun Cao, Lingxiang Shi, Zhenduo Wu, Pengfei Guan, Gang Wang, Hailong Peng, Si Lan, Si Meng, Yong Yang, Rong Han, Hai‐Bin Yu, Shaofan Zhao, Huaijun Lin, Weihua Wang, Bo Zhang, Ming Liu, Peng Wang, Haifeng Zhang, Ming‐Xing Li, Qing Wang, Xuesong Li, Bo Huang, Peng Luo, Jing Zhou, Qi Cheng, Xin Tong, Jingli Ren, Laiquan Shen, Yong Zhao, Baoan Sun, B.Z. Tang, Songling Liu, Ji Wang, Jun Yi, Yue Shang, Peng Yu, Minqiang Jiang, Kefu Yao, Beibei Fan, Maozhi Li, Junqiang Wang
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Abstract

Abstract Metallic glasses (MGs) that mainly made up of metallic elements are a new member of the glassy materials family. This new kind of glass combines the characteristics of liquids and solids, glasses and metals, making it fascinating to both scientists and industrialists. With the discovery of more and more systems, MG is becoming one of the most active research field in metallic materials, and some concepts and technologies derived from MGs also facilitate the development of other materials from quasi-crystals to high entropy alloys. MGs have now been successfully used in aerospace, robotics, medicine, consumer electronics, etc. and the practical applications of MGs are still growing. On the other hand, the diverse properties and the unique structure of the MGs render them ideal models to study major open issues including the structural model of disordered materials, glass transition, collective motion and energy landscape. However, understanding the emerging properties and phenomena of MGs still poses enormous challenges, which has stimulated a wealth of efforts, including the development of new experimental approaches, the synthesis of systems with tailored properties, and the advancements in experimental techniques, theoretical models, and numerical simulations. In this Roadmap, we try to provide a broad overview of recent and potential future activities in the MG field, and present a roadmap for the development and applications of MGs by gathering contributions form scientists with diverse backgrounds, illustrating the major challenges and discussing the latest technology and strategy to tackle these challenges with experts covering various developments in general concepts, synthesis and characterisation, and theoretical and simulation methods.

Materials FuturesVol. 4(3)
Chongqing Normal University (CN), Central South University (CN), Jinan University (CN), City University of Hong Kong (HK), Shenzhen University (CN), China Academy of Space Technology (CN), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN), Beijing Normal University (CN), Dongguan University of Technology (CN), Nanjing University of Science and Technology (CN), Zhengzhou University (CN), Zhengzhou University of Science and Technology (CN), Yangtze River Delta Physics Research Center (China) (CN), Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory (CN), Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (CN), City College of Dongguan University of Technology (CN), Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (CN), Beijing Computational Science Research Center (CN), Shanghai Research Institute of Materials (CN), Institute of Mechanics (CN), Institute of Physics (CN), Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia (MY), Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology (CN), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (CN), Renmin University of China (CN), Beihang University (CN), Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN), University of Hong Kong (HK), Northeastern University (CN), Tsinghua University (CN)
OMeGA Medical Grants Association, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, Peking University, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province
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