@article{541ff82d75524c78ae6345c9b0ede297,
title = "On Structural Rearrangements during the Vitrification of Molten Copper",
abstract = "We utilise displacement analysis of Cu-atoms between the chemical bond-centred Voronoi polyhedrons to reveal structural changes at the glass transition. We confirm that the disordered congruent bond lattice of Cu loses its rigidity above the glass transition temperature (Tg ) in line with Kantor–Webman theorem due to percolation via configurons (broken Cu-Cu chemical bonds). We reveal that the amorphous Cu has the Tg = 794 ± 10 K at the cooling rate q = 1 × 1013 K/s and that the determination of Tg based on analysis of first sharp diffraction minimum (FDSM) is sharper compared with classical Wendt–Abraham empirical criterion.",
keywords = "Amorphous copper, Configuron, Congruent bond lattice, Glass transition, Hausdorff–Besicovitch dimensionality, Molecular dynamic simulation, Percolation, Set theory, Vitrification, Voronoi polyhedrons",
author = "Ojovan, {Michael I.} and Louzguine-Luzgin, {Dmitri V.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).",
year = "2022",
month = feb,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3390/ma15041313",
language = "English",
volume = "15",
journal = "Materials",
issn = "1996-1944",
publisher = "MDPI AG",
number = "4",
}