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. 2020 Dec 11;6(50):eabd2928. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abd2928

Fig. 2. Topological orderings in supercooled liquids.

Fig. 2

(A) Temperature dependence of the fraction of atoms in the icosahedral environments (ICO) in the four systems: CuZr, NiAl, Zr, and CuZr2. The solid lines for the data of CuZr, NiAl, and CuZr2 are fits to the two-order-parameter model. (B) Temperature dependence of the fraction of atoms involved in crystal-like environments (CRYO). The order of the quantity and growth speed of fCRYO is opposite to that of fICO. (C) Snapshots of supercooled states with red atoms in ICO and blue atoms in CRYO environments at 0.6Tm for CuZr (left) and NiAl (middle), and at 0.8Tm for Zr (right).