Rapidly cooling molten metal creates glass-like ribbons that slash electrical grid losses
Amorphous metal ribbons produced through ultra-rapid cooling lack the crystalline structure of traditional steel, allowing them to slash electrical transformer energy losses by 70 percent.
Manufacturing facilities in Bursa, Turkey, are producing 0.025mm thick metallic glass ribbons that reduce the 'no-load' energy losses of electrical transformers by 70%. Unlike traditional crystalline silicon steel, this amorphous metal is created by cooling molten alloy at a rate of one million degrees per second. This rapid solidification prevents atoms from forming a rigid lattice, resulting in a random structure that allows magnetic fields to flip with minimal resistance.
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