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Melt Extracted Microwires

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Amorphous microwires as a new category of advanced materials possess many excellent mechanical and magnetic properties, and have received considerable attention from both the research and industry community. Significant efforts have been devoted to the optimization of fabrication process, tailoring of mechanical and magnetic properties, sensor and microwave applications. To now, amorphous wires can be prepared by several methods such as glass coating (Taylor-wire technique), in-water quenching, and melt extraction technology (MET). Compared with others, the solidification rate of wires prepared by melt extraction is the highest, which endows the resultant wires many excellent mechanical and magnetic properties. To our best recollection, there is no dedicated monograph on melt extraction microwires yet. Therefore, in this chapter, we will focus on the melt-extracted amorphous microwires, detailing the fabrication process, wire formation mechanism, mechanical and magnetic properties, thus provide some technical base for its applications in sensor and multifunctional composites.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 51371067, 51671171 and 51501162) and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LY16E010001). HW also acknowledges useful discussions with Hongxian Shen, Jingshun Liu, Shuling Zhang, and Lunyong Zhang from the Harbin Institute of Technology, PR China.

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Wang, H., Qin, F.X., Peng, H.X., Sun, J.F. (2017). Melt Extracted Microwires. In: Zhukov, A. (eds) High Performance Soft Magnetic Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49707-5_3

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