Mechanical properties of spinodal decomposed metallic glass composites

The micrograph of a metallic glass composite sample with spinodal decomposed microstructures with different characteristic sizes, coarse (a), medium (b) and fine (c). The free volume contours in the corresponding samples, (d), (e) and (f), and the strain contours in the corresponding samples, (g), (h), and (i) at 50% tension. The warmer the color, the higher the local free volume and strain values.236