General route to fabricate ultrafine metallic glass powders directly from their own crystalline states by localized pulsed electrical discharge atomization

Localized pulsed electrical discharge (PED) atomization is developed as a general route to fabricate ultrafine metallic glass powders with high purity and sphericity, which cannot be achieved by conventional techniques, like mechanical alloying, chemical reduction and water/gas atomization. The new atomization process starts with a localized melting on crystalline alloy surface by PED. During the melting process, multiple crystalline phases in...