Bulk Scandium-based Metallic Glasses

Abstract

The novel rare-earth scandium-based bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) are obtained by the copper mold casting method. Compared with other rare-earth BMGs reported so far, the Sc-based BMGs exhibit the highest elastic moduli (e.g., Young’s modulus, E = 85 GPa; bulk modulus, B = 77.5 GPa), glass transition temperature (Tg = 662 K), and crystallization temperature (Tx = 760 K) combined with a large region of supercooled liquid (ΔT = 98 K). A good correlation between glass transition temperature and elastic moduli is found in a variety of rare-earth-based BMGs.