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Study on glass transition temperature and kinetics of Cu–Zr glassy alloys

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Ideal glass transition temperatures and transition activation energies of Cu46Zr45Al9 metallic glass was investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The Vogel–Fulcher–Tammann temperature T 0 and Kauzmann temperature T k were determined, respectively, and T 0 is greater than T k. Meanwhile, activation energies of glass transition E g, onset crystallization E x and crystallization peak E p were deduced to be 634.2 ± 15, 444 ± 16.1 and 366.8 ± 25.1 kJ mol−1, which indicates that glass transition is harder than crystallization process to proceed.

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The authors are grateful for the Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51371133, 51671151, 51401156 and 51301125).

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    Hui Sun, Zengyun Jian, Fange Chang & Qian Gao

  2. Organization Department, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an, 710021, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Zengyun Jian & Bingqing Jiang

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Sun, H., Jian, Z., Jiang, B. et al. Study on glass transition temperature and kinetics of Cu–Zr glassy alloys. J Therm Anal Calorim 129, 1429–1433 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-017-6336-y

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