To provide a method for converting a metal complex with a liquidus temperature and a solidus temperature into a mode of a formed body which is partially solid and partially liquid.
A metal complex 28 in a molten state is poured into a mold 10 having a cylindrical mold wall. The mold 10 is put into an eccentric rotational motion. This rotational motion is maintained until the metal complex 28 is cooled down to a discharging temperature between the liquidus temperature and the solidus temperature corresponding to the desired solid-to-liquid ratio of the formed body. The formed body is discharged from the mold 10 at the discharging temperature. In order to determine the desired cooling ratio of the metal complex 28 in the mold 10, the thickness (d1) of the mold 10, the material of the mold 10, and the starting temperature are selected while the metal complex is cooled from the pouring temperature to the discharging temperature so that the change in enthalpy of the metal complex 28 becomes smaller than the change in enthalpy to the temperature rise of the mold 10 from the starting temperature to the final temperature.
HOELLRIGL GUENTHER
ROHNER WLATER
SCHELLING HELMUT
BURBACH THOMAS
Minoru Murata