“…However, balance of mechanical properties remains Achilles heel for metallic glasses and has thus limited its structural applications. During this same period, rapid solidification processing of crystalline metallic alloys was pursued in many forms (Das and Davis, 1988;Froes and Carbonara, 1988;Schwarz and Koch, 1998;Suryanarayana et al, 2013). In 1980s and 90s, two popular forms were atomization of alloys (Lawley, 1981;Lavernia et al, 1992;Bowman et al, 1997) for powders and planar flow casting of ribbons (Carpenter and Steen, 1992;Viala et al, 1996;Lee and Hong, 1997;Lee et al, 1998).…”