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Paper Name    Ab initio molecular dynamics study of the local atomic structures in monatomic metallic liquid and glass
Author    JC Zhang, C Chen, QX Pei, Q Wan, WX Zhang, ZD Sha
Publication/Completion Time    2015-07-15
Magazine Name    Materials & Design
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Paper description    Abstract Monatomic metallic glasses (MGs), being the simplest glass formers, have been obtained successfully in recent experiments, offering unique possibilities for studying the local atomic structures in glasses. In this study, the atomic-level structures in tantalum (Ta) liquid and Ta monatomic MG have been analyzed using ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. A comparison of atomic structures in monatomic MGs and in multicomponent MGs has been made. It is found that the dominant Voronoi polyhedra in Ta monatomic MG ...