Review of Thermoplastic Drawing with Bulk Metallic Glasses

This study summarizes the recent progress in thermoplastic drawing of bulk metallic glasses. The integration with templated embossing enables fabrication arrays high-aspect-ratio nanostructures whereas earlier methodologies are limited to a single fiber. two-step can produce glass structures such as, vertically aligned nanowires on substrates, nanoscale tensile specimens, hollow microneedles, helical shafts, and micro-yarns, which challenging fabricate other forming operations. These geometries will open new applications for glasses areas sensors, optical absorption, transdermal drug-delivery, high-throughput characterization size-effects. In this article, we review emergence template-based focuses development experimental set-up, quantitative description process, versatility methodology.