Ames Laboratory
Melt spinner
Materials researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory use this melt spinner to form metallic glass. A stream of molten metal is poured onto the large, spinning copper wheel and solidifies so quickly that the material forms in a thin ribbon that retains an amorphous molecular structure similar to the liquid state instead of the crystalline structure normally found in solid metals.
Melt spinner
Materials researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory use this melt spinner to form metallic glass. A stream of molten metal is poured onto the large, spinning copper wheel and solidifies so quickly that the material forms in a thin ribbon that retains an amorphous molecular structure similar to the liquid state instead of the crystalline structure normally found in solid metals.