Amorphous alloys in the classroom

Abstract

The amorphous alloys, or bulk metallic glasses, are a mixture of several metals that when they are rapidly quenched present similar characteristics to the plastics but higher tensile strengh. This alloy allows the teacher to show the relationships between the new technologies and the scientific progress, the atomic structure and the physical properties, and finally, the new properties of the materials and their novel application provide such important benefits in numerous fields, among them, leisure and sports.