The requirements on modern materials and high tech applications are rising as products should offer improved performance as longer lifetime through improved wear and/or corrosion resistance as well as miniaturization through easy to process high strength materials with good ductility which is a conflict in itself. Isotropic behavior, i.e. same mechanical properties in all dimensions, supports a simpler design of the products. Most of today’s crystalline high strength materials are not easy to handle and have a complex process value chain, unlike amorphous metals which have such extraordinary characteristics after casting.
