Metallic glasses are often referred as glassy or amorphous alloys. They lack long-range order and microstructural defects that are characteristics in crystals, such as grain and phase boundaries and dislocations. These new materials have demonstrated very interesting structural and mechanical properties derived from their homogeneity in composition and the absence of grain boundaries. Structural, mechanical or chemical properties, among others, may be even superior to those observed in conventional metallic alloys, and therefore attracted great scientific and technological interest. In this thesis project three different families of metallic glasses were selected to achieve a better understanding of amorphous alloys. First, a Ce-based al...