A senary TiZrHfCuNiBe high entropy bulk metallic glass with large glass-forming ability.

Abstract: Most reported bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) contain multiple constituent elements but only one of them is the principal element. Here we report that a senary Ti16.7Zr16.7Hf16.7Cu16.7Ni16.7Be16.7 high entropy bulk metallic glass (HE-BMG) with a critical diameter larger than 15mm has been successfully prepared by copper mold casting. It shows that newly developed HE-BMG possesses large glass-forming ability, together with the supercooled liquid region ΔT (=T x−T g), reduced glass transition temperature T rg (=T g/T l) and γ parameter (=T x/(T g+T l)) of 70K, 0.619 and 0.422, respectively. The present result indicates that high entropy alloys, even for senary alloys or metal–metal type, could also possess large glass-forming ability. And the present HE-BMG could serve as a model material for studying the fundamental issues both of high entropy alloys and bulk metallic glasses. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]