Preface

Metallic glasses with long-range disordered atomic structure possess unique mechanical, chemical, and physical properties compared to their crystalline counterparts, and they are regarded as very promising engineering and functional materials, attracting increasing at‐ tention from both scientific and industrial communities. Although great progress has been achieved for metallic glasses in the last two decades, three main problems, including dimen‐ sional limit, poor tension plasticity, and difficulty in machining and shaping, still hugely hinder their wider applications as practical structural and functional materials. Thus, further investigation of the preparation, properties, and processing of metallic glasses is urgently required. This book provides its readers with recent achievements and developments of these aspects, and six chapters are included.

Chapter 1 is the introductory chapter, which explains the nature and purpose of the book, as well as its contents.

Chapter 2 reviews some pivotal aspects during the thermoplastic forming of metallic glasses, including mainly the evaluation of thermoplastic formability and its relationship with material flowing characteristic, thermoplastic forming techniques for processing metal‐ lic glass components with high quality, and the potential applications of these thermoplas‐ tic-formed textures.

Chapter 3 reviews recent developments in the structure of metallic glasses and their me‐ chanical properties and deformation behaviors investigated by atomic-level simulations.

Chapter 4 focuses on the fabrication and mechanical properties of metallic glass matrix com‐ posites, which has been confirmed to be a significant method for improving the room-tem‐ perature plasticity of metallic glasses.

Chapters 5 and 6 focus on the tribo-electrochemical aspect of metallic glasses, including basic knowledge, tribocorrosion, passivity breakdown, and tribological and corrosion behaviors.

Several colleagues have contributed to this work, and I am very grateful for their help in its completion. This book is expected to assist students and researchers in their work, and con‐ tribute to new developments in the field of metallic glasses.

> **Hu Huang** Jilin University, China

**Section 1**

**Introduction**

**Section 1**
