Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Shaping metallic glasses by electromagnetic pulsing

  • Georg Kaltenboeck,
  • Marios D. Demetriou,
  • Scott Roberts,
  • William L. Johnson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10576
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Metallic glasses can be softened to different shapes whilst maintaining mechanical properties, and the related thermoplastic processing requires a heating source and an applied force. Here, the authors show an effective thermoplastic approach by a coupling between electric pulses and a magnetic field.