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The superplastic deformation behavior of the ferromagnetic Co31Fe31Nb8B30 bulk metallic glass (BMG) in the supercooled liquid region was investigated. At a given temperature, the BMG exhibits a Newtonian behavior at low strain rates but a non-Newtonian behavior at high strain rates. The high thermal stability of this glassy alloy system offers an enough processing window to thermoplastic forming (TPF), and the strong processing ability was examined by simple micro-replication experiments. It is demonstrated that the TPF formability on length scales ranging down to nanometers can be achieved in the selected experimental condition. Based on the analysis of deformation behavior, the nearly full density sample (i.e. nearly 100%), was produced from water-atomized glassy powders and consolidated by the hot-pressing technique. The sample exhibits good soft-magnetic and mechanical properties, i.e., low coercive force of 0.43 Oe, high initial permeability of 4100 and high Vickers hardness 1398. These results suggest that the hot-pressing process opens up possibilities for the commercial exploitation of BMGs in engineering applications.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51301189), Zhejiang Province Public Technology Research and Industrial Projects (Grant No. 2015C31043).
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Wu, C., Hu, R., Man, Q. et al. Thermoplastic deformation of ferromagnetic CoFe-based bulk metallic glasses. Appl. Phys. A 123, 742 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-1359-6
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