Abstract
Liquids attain a metastable state without crystallizing by cooling rapidly to a given temperature below the melting point. With increasing supercooling, the nucleation rate would show an increase based on the prediction of the classical nucleation theory. It is generally thought that the nucleation rate will reach the maximum upon approaching the glass transition temperature, Tg, for glass-forming liquids. We report that there exists a supercooled region above Tg in which the crystallization has actually been severely suppressed. Our molecular dynamics simulations show that the growth of embryos in the supercooled Cu60Zr40 melt is subjected to a strong anisotropic stress associated with the dynamic heterogeneity. Its long-range effect drives the embryo to grow into a ramified morphology so that the interface energy dominates over the embryo growth, leading to the suppression of nucleation.
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