The equipment for the preparation of micro and nanoscale metallic glassy fibers

Rev Sci Instrum. 2014 Oct;85(10):103907. doi: 10.1063/1.4898018.

Abstract

A supercooled liquid extraction method and apparatus for micro and nanoscale metallic glassy fiber preparation was developed. Using the fiber fabrication equipment, micro to nanoscale metallic glassy fibers with diameter ranging from 70 nm to 300 μm can be obtained by wire drawing in the supercooled liquid region of metallic glasses via superplastic deformation. The obtained metallic glassy fibers possess precisely designed and controlled sizes, high structural uniformity and high degree of surface smoothness.