Development of static and dynamic structures in glass-forming metallic alloys

▶ This paper focused on the early stages of crystallization in metallic glasses and on the dynamic structure in the vicinity of the glass transition. ▶ Microstructure investigations as well as calorimetric methods have been applied on two model systems that present rather different thermal stabilities of the glassy state. ▶ The complementing results are discussed with respect of a possible relationship between dynamic heterogeneities and the earliest stages of crystal formation, particularly for systems that present unusual crystallization kinetics with extremely high nucleation site densities.