Towards nano-injection molding
Volume 15, Issue 5, Page 216–221
| Nan Zhang, Cormac J. Byrne, David J. Browne, Michael D. Gilchrist
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs), having no limiting microstructure, can be machined or thermoplastically-formed with sub-micron precision while still retaining often-desirable metallic properties such as high compressive strength. These novel materials thus have enormous potential for use as multi-scale tools for high-volume manufacturing of polymeric MEMS and information storage devices. Here we show the manufacture of a prototype BMG injection molding tool capable of producing centimeter long polymeric components, with sub-micron surface features.
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DOI: 10.1016/S1369-7021(12)70092-5
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