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Metallic glasses

Fast track to production

A high-throughput approach combining combinatorial deposition of materials with parallel blow-forming speeds up the discovery rate of bulk metallic glasses that can be easily formed into complex shapes.

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Figure 1: Metallic-glass objects formed by thermoplastic forming.
Figure 2: Parallel blow-forming approach2.

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Miracle, D. Fast track to production. Nature Mater 13, 432–433 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3958

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