First nickel-based bulk metallic glass alloys having a high glass forming ability, wherein in the first nickel-based bulk metallic glass alloys both a phase having a high fracture toughness, a nickel solid solution and borides having a high hardness is formed by a heat treatment at temperatures above crystallization temperatures.

First nickel-based bulk metallic glass alloys having a high glass forming ability, wherein in the first nickel-based bulk metallic glass alloys both a phase having a high fracture toughness, a nickel solid solution and borides having a high hardness is formed by a heat treatment at temperatures above crystallization temperatures.

The present invention provides a soft magnetic nanowire having a sufficiently high saturation magnetization, a sufficiently high relative magnetic permeability and a sufficiently low coercivity force. The present invention relates to a soft magnetic nanowire, comprising an iron and a boron and having an average length of 5 ?m or more and an iron/boron molar ratio in the nanowire of less than 5, wherein the iron/boron molar ratio is measured by a SEM-EDS method.

An amorphous, ductile brazing foil is provided. According to one example embodiment, the composition consists essentially of Ni.sub.restCr.sub.aB.sub.bP.sub.cSi.sub.d with 2 atomic percenta30 atomic percent; 0.5 atomic percentb14 atomic percent; 2 atomic percentc20 atomic percent; 0 atomic percentd14 atomic percent; incidental impurities0.5 atomic percent; rest Ni, where c>b>c/15 and 10 atomic percentb+c+d25 atomic percent.

An amorphous, ductile brazing foil is provided. According to one example embodiment, the composition consists essentially of Ni.sub.restCr.sub.aB.sub.bP.sub.cSi.sub.d with 2 atomic percenta30 atomic percent; 0.5 atomic percentb14 atomic percent; 2 atomic percentc20 atomic percent; 0 atomic percentd14 atomic percent; incidental impurities0.5 atomic percent; rest Ni, where c>b>c/15 and 10 atomic percentb+c+d25 atomic percent.

Disclosed are a metal alloy composition including an amorphous or crystalline metal matrix and metal particles having hyperelasticity by a phase transition dispersed in the metal matrix, wherein the metal alloy composition includes at least one early transition metal (ETM), at least one late transition metal (LTM), and silicon (Si) in an amount of greater than about 0 atomic % and less than about 2 atomic %, a fabricating method thereof, and a product including the same.

Disclosed are a metal alloy composition including an amorphous or crystalline metal matrix and metal particles having hyperelasticity by a phase transition dispersed in the metal matrix, wherein the metal alloy composition includes at least one early transition metal (ETM), at least one late transition metal (LTM), and silicon (Si) in an amount of greater than about 0 atomic % and less than about 2 atomic %, a fabricating method thereof, and a product including the same.

First nickel-based bulk metallic glass alloys having a high glass forming ability, wherein in the first nickel-based bulk metallic glass alloys both a phase having a high fracture toughness, a nickel solid solution and borides having a high hardness is formed by a heat treatment at temperatures above crystallization temperatures.

First nickel-based bulk metallic glass alloys having a high glass forming ability, wherein in the first nickel-based bulk metallic glass alloys both a phase having a high fracture toughness, a nickel solid solution and borides having a high hardness is formed by a heat treatment at temperatures above crystallization temperatures.

A method for machining a sample of amorphous metal alloy using a femtosecond laser, including at least one step of irradiating the sample with a laser beam along a reference trajectory to ablate material from the sample, so as to obtain a sample machined and maintained in the amorphous state, in which, the laser beam is pulsed, and the duration of each pulse is less than 1000 femtoseconds, preferably less than 600 femtoseconds, and in which the amorphous metal alloy has a critical diameter less than 5 millimeters, and/or a difference between the crystallization temperature and the glass transition temperature less than 60? C., and/or a quotient of the difference between the crystallization temperature and the glass transition temperature and of the difference between the liquidus temperature and the temperature glass transition is less than 0.12.