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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03604-2
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- US National Science Foundation [DMR-1506564]
- University of Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center [DMR-1121288]
- Department of Energy through the Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE SC0004889]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1506564] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Supercooled liquids exhibit spatial heterogeneity in the dynamics of their fluctuating atomic arrangements. The length and time scales of the heterogeneous dynamics are central to the glass transition and influence nucleation and growth of crystals from the liquid. Here, we report direct experimental visualization of the spatially heterogeneous dynamics as a function of temperature in the supercooled liquid state of a Pt-based metallic glass, using electron correlation microscopy with sub-nanometer resolution. An experimental four-point space-time correlation function demonstrates a growing dynamic correlation length upon cooling of the liquid toward the glass transition temperature.. as a function of the relaxation time tau are in good agreement with Adam-Gibbs theory, inhomogeneous mode-coupling theory and random first-order transition theory of the glass transition. The same experiments demonstrate the existence of a nanometer thickness near-surface layer with order of magnitude shorter relaxation time than inside the bulk.
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