A sulfurous, metallic glass forming alloy and a method for the production thereof are described.

There is provided a method for manufacturing a soft magnetic member where a coating formed of an -Fe.sub.2O.sub.3 single phase having a high electrical resistivity is formed on a soft magnetic alloy substrate. A soft magnetic alloy substrate is heated in an atmosphere containing water vapor and inert gas to form a coating on the soft magnetic alloy substrate. The atmosphere has an oxygen partial pressure in a range of 0 to 1.5 kPa. A soft magnetic member including the soft magnetic alloy substrate and the coating formed on its surface can be obtained.

The present invention relates to an alloy which has the following composition:

Cu.sub.47 at %(x+y+z)(Ti.sub.aZr.sub.b).sub.cNi.sub.7 at %+xSn.sub.1 at %+ySi.sub.z

where
c=43-47 at %, a=0.65-0.85, b=0.15-0.35, where a+b=1.00;
x=0-7 at %;
y=0-3 at %, z=0-3 at %, where y+z4 at %.

One embodiment provides a structure, comprising: a display; at least one structural component disposed over a portion of the display, wherein the at least on structural component comprises at least one amorphous alloy; and wherein a portion of the display is foldable.

The invention provides a method of producing an amorphous alloy ribbon, the method including a step of producing an amorphous alloy ribbon by discharging a molten alloy through a rectangular opening of a molten metal nozzle having a molten metal flow channel along which the molten alloy flows, the opening being an end of the molten metal flow channel, onto a surface of a rotating chill roll, in which, among wall surfaces of the molten metal flow channel, a maximum height Rz(t) of a surface t, which is a wall surface parallel to a flow direction of the molten alloy and to a short side direction of the opening, is 10.5 m or less.

A negative electrode active material includes a silicon-based alloy represented by Si-M.sub.1-M.sub.2-CB, wherein M.sub.1 and M.sub.2 are different from each other and are each independently selected from magnesium, aluminum, titanium, vanadium, chromium, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, gallium, germanium, manganese, yttrium, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, silver, tin, tantalum, and tungsten. In the silicon-based alloy, Si is in a range of about 50 at % to about 90 at %, M.sub.1 is in a range of about 10 at % to about 50 atom %, and M.sub.2 is in a range of 0 at % to about 10 at %, based on a total number of Si, M.sub.1, and M.sub.2 atoms. C is in a range of about 0.01 to about 30 parts by weight, and B is in a range of 0 to about 5 parts by weight, based on a total of 100 parts by weight of Si, M.sub.1, and M.sub.2.

Provided in one embodiment is a method of identifying a stable phase of an ordering binary alloy system comprising a solute element and a solvent element, the method comprising: determining at least three thermodynamic parameters associated with grain boundary segregation, phase separation, and intermetallic compound formation of the ordering binary alloy system; and identifying the stable phase of the ordering binary alloy system based on the first thermodynamic parameter, the second thermodynamic parameter and the third thermodynamic parameter by comparing the first thermodynamic parameter, the second thermodynamic parameter and the third thermodynamic parameter with a predetermined set of respective thermodynamic parameters to identify the stable phase; wherein the stable phase is one of a stable nanocrystalline phase, a metastable nanocrystalline phase, and a non-nanocrystalline phase.

A method and apparatus are described for creation of amorphous metals using electromagnetic supercooling of a metal/alloy without the utilization of rapid quenching or immaculate process environments. By exposing the cooling melt to electric currents, either induced by an alternating current (AC) magnetic field or supplied directly, crystallization is suppressed, and the melt can reach significant levels of supercooling. With sufficient current densities in the melt, the supercooling can extend all the way into the glass transition range for certain materials, at which point an amorphous metal/alloy is created.

A structural object includes a substrate integrally clad with a metallic glass sheet by adhering, welding or joining the metallic glass sheet on the substrate for a low-cost, flexible and convenient fabrication, assembly, processing or construction of the object.

A continuous precision forming device and process for an amorphous alloy or a composite material thereof is provided. By means of the device, when a melting platform with an alloy melt is rotated from the melting position to a position just below the forming mould (9), temperature of the alloy melt can be in the range of the overcooled liquid zone temperature of the alloy melt, and then a loading rod (7) drives the forming mould (9) to proceed with pressing forming. According to the process, press-forming is carried out in a certain temperature interval in the amorphous alloy melt solidification process, and the heating, cooling, solidification and forming in the forming process are coordinated, such that continuous forming of the amorphous alloy is achieved.