Revealing the relationships between chemistry, topology and stiffness of 
ultrastrong Co-based metallic glass thin films: A combinatorial approach

Schnabel, Volker; Köhler, Mathias; Evertz, Simon; Gamcova, Jana; Bednarcik, Jozef; Mušić, Denis; Raabe, Dierk; Schneider, Jochen Michael

doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2016.01.060

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Revealing the relationships between chemistry, topology and stiffness of ultrastrong Co-based metallic glass thin films: A combinatorial approach

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Köhler, Mathias
Atom Probe Tomography, Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Max Planck Society;

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Raabe, Dierk
Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Max Planck Society;

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Schneider, Jochen Michael
Materials Chemistry, RWTH Aachen and Max-Planck-Fellow Group, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Max Planck Society Düsseldorf;

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Schnabel, V., Köhler, M., Evertz, S., Gamcova, J., Bednarcik, J., Mušić, D., et al. (2016). Revealing the relationships between chemistry, topology and stiffness of ultrastrong Co-based metallic glass thin films: A combinatorial approach. Acta Materialia, 107, 213-219. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2016.01.060.

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An efficient way to study the relationship between chemical composition and mechanical properties of thin films is to utilize the combinatorial approach, where spatially resolved mechanical property measurements are conducted along a concentration gradient. However, for thin film glasses many properties including the mechanical response are affected by chemical topology. Here a novel method is introduced which enables spatially resolved short range order analysis along concentration gradients of combinatorially synthesized metallic glass thin films. For this purpose a CoZrTaB metallic glass film of 3 μm thickness is deposited on a polyimide foil, which is investigated by high energy X-ray diffraction in transmission mode. Through the correlative chemistry-topology-stiffness investigation, we observe that an increase in metalloid concentration from 26.4 to 32.7 at and the associated formation of localized (hybridized) metal - metalloid bonds induce a 10 increase in stiffness. Concomitantly, along the same composition gradient, a metalloid-concentration-induced increase in first order metal - metal bond distances of 1 is observed, which infers itinerant (metallic) bond weakening. Hence, the metalloid concentration induced increase in hybridized bonding dominates the corresponding weakening of metallic bonds. © 2016 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.