Exploring plastic metallic glasses

The lack of global plasticity at room temperature is the main barrier to the application of metallic glasses and to the understanding of their deformation. The improvement of this plasticity has been a hot topic in metallic glasses research. In this paper we introduce three feasible methods to enhance the plasticity. Based on the correlation between elastic moduli (Poisson′s ratio) and plasticity we have designed a series of metallic glasses with large plasticity.