New Functional Application of Metallic Glasses in Degrading Organic Water Contaminants

摘要

The metallic glasses, unlike the crystalline metals in which the constituent atoms reside at thermodynamic equilibrium state, are metastable materials in far-from-equilibrium states. The far-from-equilibrium nature bestows them many excellent properties that are unachievable in crystalline alloys. In the past two decades, people found a lot of new families of metallic glasses. But, the exploring of new applications falls far behind and limits their further developments.