For decades, scientists have been trying to find or make such a material that can have good plasticity and lower processing cost like plastic, and can have good strength and durability like steel. This is not an unrealistic illusion. According to the report of the American Physicist Organization Network on March 2, a few days ago, scientists at Yale University in the United States have achieved this goal.
A team of researchers led by Jane Scholes, a material scientist at Yale University, demonstrated that a bulk amorphous alloy BMGs made from them can be blown into film like glass or plastic without sacrificing the original quality. Some strength and durability. Related papers have been published online in the magazine "Today's Materials", a well-known journal in international materials science.
According to reports, this material consists of a variety of metals including zirconium, nickel, titanium and copper. Its material cost is about the same as high-end steel, but the processing cost is as cheap as plastic. The blow molding process takes place at low temperatures and pressures. The amorphous alloy gradually softens and can flow like molten plastic, but it does not crystallize as normal metal, which is used for subsequent blow molding work. Bring unprecedented convenience. In order to achieve and maintain the desired accuracy and temperature, the blow molding process can be performed in vacuum or liquid.
Schlöls said that the key problem in the processing of metal materials is how to avoid unnecessary friction. However, for this alloy material, there is no such problem at all. With the blow molding process, any complex shape can be manufactured. Objects, the smallest to the nanometer level. So far, the team has used this material to create more complex structures such as seamless metal bottles and cases with relatively simple shapes, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) microresonators and biomedical implants. equipment. The processing of these materials takes less than a minute, but the strength can be twice that of ordinary steel.
In addition, through the blow molding method to process bulk amorphous alloys, the team also combined the three major steps of traditional metal processing (molding, jointing, and finishing) into one step, eliminating the previously tedious, time-consuming, and energy-consuming processing. The procedure, the new process in time is as short as one minute.
"This could be a new model of metal processing," said Schalls. "With its unique properties, it will be expected to become a new type of material with great potential, just like synthetic plastics of that year, in related industries." The field sparked a **."
It is understood that Apple recently signed an agreement with liquid metal technology company that owns the patent and was allowed to use this technology in the consumer electronics field. Perhaps in the next few years we will be able to use laptops and mobile phones made from this material.
A team of researchers led by Jane Scholes, a material scientist at Yale University, demonstrated that a bulk amorphous alloy BMGs made from them can be blown into film like glass or plastic without sacrificing the original quality. Some strength and durability. Related papers have been published online in the magazine "Today's Materials", a well-known journal in international materials science.
According to reports, this material consists of a variety of metals including zirconium, nickel, titanium and copper. Its material cost is about the same as high-end steel, but the processing cost is as cheap as plastic. The blow molding process takes place at low temperatures and pressures. The amorphous alloy gradually softens and can flow like molten plastic, but it does not crystallize as normal metal, which is used for subsequent blow molding work. Bring unprecedented convenience. In order to achieve and maintain the desired accuracy and temperature, the blow molding process can be performed in vacuum or liquid.
Schlöls said that the key problem in the processing of metal materials is how to avoid unnecessary friction. However, for this alloy material, there is no such problem at all. With the blow molding process, any complex shape can be manufactured. Objects, the smallest to the nanometer level. So far, the team has used this material to create more complex structures such as seamless metal bottles and cases with relatively simple shapes, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) microresonators and biomedical implants. equipment. The processing of these materials takes less than a minute, but the strength can be twice that of ordinary steel.
In addition, through the blow molding method to process bulk amorphous alloys, the team also combined the three major steps of traditional metal processing (molding, jointing, and finishing) into one step, eliminating the previously tedious, time-consuming, and energy-consuming processing. The procedure, the new process in time is as short as one minute.
"This could be a new model of metal processing," said Schalls. "With its unique properties, it will be expected to become a new type of material with great potential, just like synthetic plastics of that year, in related industries." The field sparked a **."
It is understood that Apple recently signed an agreement with liquid metal technology company that owns the patent and was allowed to use this technology in the consumer electronics field. Perhaps in the next few years we will be able to use laptops and mobile phones made from this material.