Bulk Metallic Glasses and Their Composites: A Brief History of Diverging Fields

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(a) Thermoplastic processing in a Zr-Ti-Cu-Be bulk metallic glass. (b) Blow molding demonstrated in a Zr-Ti-Cu-Be bulk metallic glass. (c) Capacitive discharge forming of a metallic glass showing the part and the mold in which it was cast in 40 milliseconds. These are all demonstrations of thermoplastic processing. Images from G. Duan and M.D. Demetriou.