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ArticleNature communications2025

Accessing ultrastable glass via a bulk transformation.

Hengtong Bu, Hengwei Luan, Jingyi Kang, Jili Jia, Wenhui Guo, Yunshuai Su, Huaping Ding, Hsiang-Shun Chang, Ranbin Wang, You Wu and 5 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors.

Hengtong BuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-6517-1984
Hengwei LuanSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0095-4528
Jingyi KangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Jili JiaSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Wenhui GuoSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Yunshuai SuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Huaping DingState Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Hsiang-Shun ChangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Ranbin WangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
You WuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Lingxiang ShiSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7859-9047
Pan GongState Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3833-8440
Qiaoshi ZengCenter for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai, 201203, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5960-1378
Yang ShaoSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. shaoyang@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5369-9933
Kefu YaoSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. kfyao@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52271148National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52471176
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As a medium to understand the nature of glass transition, ultrastable glasses have garnered increasing attention for their significance in fundamental science and technological applications. Most studies have produced ultrastable glasses through a surface-controlled process using physical vapor deposition. Here, we demonstrate an approach to accessing ultrastable glasses via the glass-to-glass transition, a bulk transformation that is inherently free from size constraints and anisotropy. The resulting ultrastable glass exhibits a significantly enhanced density (improved by 2.3%), along with high thermodynamic, kinetic, and mechanical stability. Furthermore, we propose that this method of accessing ultrastable glasses is general for metallic glasses, based on the examination of the competitive relationship between the glass-to-glass transition and crystallization. This strategy is expected to facilitate the proliferation of the ultrastable glass family, helping to resolve the instability issues of glass materials and devices and deepen our understanding of glasses and the glass transition.

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