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Metallic glasses are lucrative engineering materials owing to their superior mechanical properties such as high strength and great elastic strain. However, the Achilles' heel of metallic amorphous materials - low plasticity caused by instantaneous catastrophic shear banding, significantly undercut their structural applications. Here, the nanolayered crystalline Cu/amorphous Cu-Zr micropillars with equal layer thickness spanning from 20-100 nm are uniaxially compressed and it is found that the Cu/Cu-Zr micropillars exhibit superhigh homogeneous deformation (>= 30% strain) rather than localized shear banding at room temperature. This extraordinary plasticity is aided by the deformation-induced devitrification via absorption/annihilation of abundant dislocations, triggering the cooperative shearing of shear transformation zones in glassy layers, which simultaneously renders the work-softening. The synthesis of such heterogeneous nanolayered structure not only hampers shear band generation but also provides a viable route to enhance the controllability of plastic deformation in metallic glassy composites via deformation-induced devitrification mechanism.
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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN: 2045-2322
Year: 2013
Volume: 3
Page: 6
5 . 0 7 8
JCR@2013
4 . 3 7 9
JCR@2020
ESI Discipline: MULTIDISCIPLINARY;
ESI HC Threshold:452
JCR Journal Grade:4
CAS Journal Grade:3
Cited Count:
WoS CC Cited Count: 32
SCOPUS Cited Count: 37
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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Chinese Cited Count:
30 Days PV: 4
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