MOLDING AND DE-MOLDING OF METALLIC GLASS USING NON-DISPOSABLE MOLDS

摘要

A reusable mold comprising a flexible bulk metallic glass mold insert comprising one or more mold cavities removably coupled to a support mold and a method of making the reusable mold. The support mold is removable from the flexible bulk metallic glass mold insert without macroscopic elastic flexing or deforming of the support mold. The reusable mold may be used for molding one or more bulk metallic glass parts and the one or more molded bulk metallic glass parts may be released from the flexible bulk metallic glass mold insert by elastically flexing the flexible mold insert.