Current status and future prospects of cutting-edge development of amorphous materials

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  • 1. Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China 

    2. Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Received date: 2024-02-23

  Revised date: 2024-04-28

  Online published: 2024-06-26

Abstract

This article focuses on amorphous matters and reviews recent advances in amorphous materials and physics. More recently, more than 30% of the lunar soil collected by China's Chang 'e-5 mission was found to be glassy, further confirming the widespread existence of amorphous matter in the universe. Topological order and inhomogeneity may be hidden behind the seemingly chaotic structure of amorphous materials, so amorphous matters have strange genetic, sensitive and relaxation behaviors, and show a series of excellent physical and chemical properties, such as extreme stability, super-plasticity, super mechanical behavior and excellent soft magnetic properties. The new generation of Zr-based and Fe-based amorphous alloys developed based on order regulation and high flux technology are successfully applied to core components such as folding mobile phone hinges and new energy vehicle motors, indicating that amorphous matters have irreplaceable application advantages. The future development of amorphous matters should focus on introducing a new paradigm of material research, attaching importance to the importance of process innovation, promoting the cross-integration of multi-disciplinary fields, giving full play to the advantages of advanced characterization technology and large scientific devices, and creating a whole-chain innovation model for production, university and research, so as to actively promote the rapid development of amorphous materials and physics, and expand the application of amorphous matters in high-tech fields. Make the future of mankind a better place.

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KE Haibo, ZHOU Jing, TONG Xing, WANG Weihua . Current status and future prospects of cutting-edge development of amorphous materials[J]. Science & Technology Review, 0 : 1 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2024.02.00268

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