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Register a new userA high-throughput structural and electrochemical study of metallic glass formation in Ni-Ti-Al
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Based on a set of machine learning predictions of glass formation in the Ni-Ti-Al system, we have undertaken a high-throughput experimental study of that system. We utilized rapid synthesis followed by high-throughput structural and electrochemical characterization. Using this dual-modality approach, we are able to better classify the amorphous portion of the library, which we found to be the portion with a full-width-half-maximum (FWHM) of 0.42 A$^{-1}$ for the first sharp x-ray diffraction peak. We demonstrate that the FWHM and corrosion resistance are correlated but that, while chemistry still plays a role, a large FWHM is necessary for the best corrosion resistance.
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