中国有色金属学报(英文版)
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
| Vol. 18 No. 5 October 2008 |
（1. State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi’an 710072, China;
2. School of Information Technology and Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China）
Abstract:The effects of 5%Ni addition on the glass forming ability, thermal stability and crystallization behavior of Mg65Cu25Tb10 bulk metallic glass were investigated using X-ray diffractometry, differential scanning calorimetry and transmission electron microscopy. The small amount of Ni addition reduces the glass forming ability and thermal stability due to a significant decrease in the crystallization activation energy. Analyses of crystallization kinetics give evidence to the existence of quenched-in nuclei in amorphous Mg65Cu20Ni5Tb10. Final crystallization products are basically same for Mg65Cu25Tb10 and Mg65Cu20Ni5Tb10.
Key words: bulk metallic glass; thermal stability; crystallization behavior; quenched-in nuclei
