Icosahedral short-range order in deeply undercooled metallic melts.
Experimental evidence of icosahedral short-range order in stable and deeply undercooled melts of pure metallic elements is obtained using the combination of electromagnetic levitation with neutron scattering. This icosahedral short-range order is shown to occur in the bulk metallic melt independently of the system investigated. It strongly increases with the degree of undercooling.
Institut für Raumsimulation, DLR, D-51170 Köln, Germany.
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