Zhao-Yang Hou

TL;DR: In this paper, a molecular dynamics simulation study has been performed to investigate the solid microstructures of Ag at room temperature resulted from rapid solidification with six cooling rates by using Quantum Sutton-Chen (QSC) many body potential.

TL;DR: The effect of the cooling rate on the solidification process of liquid aluminium is studied using a large-scale molecular dynamics method, and it is found that there are various types of short-range order structures in the liquid, among which the icosahedral (ICO)-like structures are dominant.

TL;DR: In this paper, the second peak splitting in pair distribution function (PDF) g (r ) curve of Mg 70 Zn 30 metallic glass is mainly caused by the intercross-shared (IS) cluster linked of two icosahedra.

TL;DR: In this paper, molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to explore the crystallization mechanism under rapid cooling for Zirconium that has body-centred cubic (bcc) and hexagonal close-packed (hcp) phases separated at 1136 K.

TL;DR: This study validates the Ostwald's step rule and provides evidence for the prediction that the metastable bcc phase forms first from liquid, and reveals that the final solid at 273 K can be a mixture of hexagonal close-packed and face-centered cubic microstructures with various proportions of the two, and the slower the cooling rate is, the higher proportion the fcc structure occupies.