A new research group centered at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, the interdisciplinary ‘InterDent’ research group, aims to gain understating of how dental restorations can be made to last longer through materials science.
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Legend Mining Ltd. has received positive phase-one metallurgical test-work results on samples from a diamond drill hole at Mawson prospect within the Rockford Project, demonstrating recovery of up to 98% copper and 97% nickel.
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Micro alloyed steels are machined and hardened to provide necessary machinability, strength, fatigue, and wear properties after forging and direct heat treatment. The selection of an appropriate steel grade is very important in the fabrication of crankshafts.
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Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Illinois launched new features on its PdMetrics dashboard that monitors incoming three-phase utilities, voltage, and frequency on Ipsen’s Titan 2.0 vacuum furnaces. This addition offers further diagnostics for the diffusion pump heater assembly.
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Senvol has been awarded a contract with the United States Army Research Laboratory to apply its machine learning software, Senvol Machine Learning, to enable the rapid design and qualification of additive manufacturing parts.
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A rare mineral that has allowed Roman concrete marine barriers to survive for more than 2000 years has been found in the thick concrete walls of a decommissioned nuclear power plant in Japan.
Continue readingResonetics announced today that it has acquired the medical business of Hutchinson Technology, Inc.. The HTI Medical business has developed a number of proprietary manufacturing processes to fabricate and assemble tight tolerance, metal components for market-leading devices used to seal vessels in many types of surgery.
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Cirtec Medical Corp., an outsourcing partner of complex medical devices, announced that it has acquired NovelCath, a vertically integrated manufacturer of highly engineered catheter delivery systems based in Minnesota.
Continue readingCritical orifices are one of the three basic types of thermal spray control devices used to measure gas flow.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover, scheduled to land on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, carries 11 metal parts manufactured with 3D printing.
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Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville invented a new way to deposit thin layers of atoms as a coating onto a substrate material at near room temperatures.
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Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., has successfully completed factory acceptance testing of a new continuous, graphite rotary tube furnace at 2000°C for a global chemical manufacturer. The furnace will process refractory metal powders in hydrogen and inert atmospheres.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific unveiled the Axia ChemiSEM, a cost-effective, floor-model scanning electron microscope that increases the speed of materials microstructural analysis and defect discovery.
Continue readingRotameters are one of the three basic types of gas flow measurement devices used in thermal spray processes.
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Novelis has worked with industry partners to develop the world’s first aluminum sheet battery enclosure. When compared to aluminum extrusion and casting-intense designs, it is the most cost-effective solution for mass production vehicles. The enclosure accommodates all battery cell types and is designed particularly for battery electric vehicles with larger power packs such as pick-up trucks, sport utility vehicles, and crossovers.
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Leica Microsystems announced the donation of a THUNDER 3D Live Cell imaging system to the Institute of Virology of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Since the start of the current coronavirus outbreak, the Institute of Virology on Campus Charité Mitte, led by Director Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten, has been at the forefront of viral research into SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used quantum optics to advance state-of-the-art microscopy and illuminate a path to detecting material properties with greater sensitivity than is possible with traditional tools. Their work is the first practical application of nonlinear interferometry.
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H.C. Starck Tantalum & Niobium, Germany, announces that it is now operating under the Taniobis brand name, and will continue to offer a wide range of materials, powders, and alloys based on tantalum and niobium.
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ASM CONNECT launched for all ASM members on January 15; since then, over 100 posts/replies have been discussed.
Continue readingThermo-Calc Software, Stockholm, announces a new professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering: “Thermo-Calc Professor of the Practice.”
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Novelis Inc., Atlanta, announces a new collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology in which it will invest $2.5 million to establish a Novelis Innovation Hub to promote aluminum basic and translational research, innovative business models, and related educational endeavors.
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Rigaku Corp., Japan, introduces the new sixth generation Rigaku MiniFlex benchtop x-ray diffractometer for qualitative and quantitative analysis of polycrystalline materials.
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Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech in France, and Soitec, a French designer and manufacturer of innovative semiconductor materials, announce a new collaboration and five-year partnership agreement to drive the R&D of advanced engineered substrates, including SOI and beyond.
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Thermo Scientific, Madison, Wis., introduces the Genesys family of automated, robust UV-Visible spectrophotometers, which are accessible, network-ready, and designed to meet expectations for advanced technology in a compact package.
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Thermal spray coatings exhibit a unique microstructural architecture. Coatings are formed as melted and partially melted particles of different sizes impact substrates at a rate of perhaps one million particles per second, and build up one upon the other.
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Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, has shipped a natural gas direct-fired batch oven with a separate cooling chamber to a manufacturer of automotive parts for curing rubber automotive hoses.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific, Hillsboro, Ore., announces three new additions to its portfolio of semiconductor failure analysis workflows.
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The ASM Materials Education Foundation, Materials Park, Ohio, announces the winners of the 2017 ASM Materials Genome Toolkit competition: the undergraduate engineering departments at the University of Florida, the University of Pittsburgh, and Wright State University.
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Mechanical interlocking, as illustrated in the diagram, has been viewed historically as the main mechanism of thermal spray coating adhesion.
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Hitachi High-Technologies Corp., Tokyo, announces the Hitachi ArBlade 5000 broad ion-milling system, which enables high throughput and prepares wide-area cross-sectional samples.
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