Abstract
Amorphous metallic foams with an open-cell structure are processed with the salt replication method by infiltration of a sintered salt pattern with liquid Vit 106, a Zr-based bulk metallic glass. After pattern removal in nitric acid, the Vit 106 foams exhibit highly uniform pores, about 250 μm in size, and relative densities in the range 15-22%. Processing parameters, including pattern selection, sintering, and removal, are investigated.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 335-339 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Scripta Materialia |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2005 |
Funding
The authors acknowledge the support of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Structural Amorphous Metals (DARPA-SAM) program and the Caltech Center for Structural Amorphous Metals.
Keywords
- Foaming
- Foams
- Liquid infiltration
- Metallic glasses
- Processing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering
- Metals and Alloys