Most materials are capable of being only one thing at a time, but a team of engineers and physicists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have now created an entirely new material in which completely contradictory properties can coexist
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NanoSteel, a leader in nanostructured steel materials, delivered its first advanced high strength steel (AHSS) to General Motors for initial testing.
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EOS, Germany, is participating in this year’s Hanover Fair (April 25-29 2016). Within the scope of the Solutions Area Lightweight Design, which is part of “Industrial Supply”—the international leading trade fair for innovative supply and lightweight solutions
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Jolting a super-stretchy, self-healing material with an electrical field causes it to twitch or pulse in a muscle-like fashion. The polymer can also stretch to 100 times its original length, and even repair itself if punctured.
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Using state-of-the-art theoretical methods, University of California, Santa Barbara, researchers identified a specific type of defect in the atomic structure of an LED that results in less efficient performance.
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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory found a potential path to further improve solar cell efficiency by understanding the competition among halogen atoms during the synthesis of sunlight-absorbing crystals.
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The premiere of manned flights with the world’s first certified Multicopter, e-volo’s Volocopter VC200, Karlsruhe, Germany, marks a step forward in urban mobility.
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New research has identified how liquid-like materials can change into a solid-like state without the addition of extra particles or changes in volume.
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A team of chemists, led by Xiaohu Xia from Michigan Technological University found a better way to make metal nanoframe catalysts.
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Alcoa, Pittsburgh, entered into an agreement with Airbus, France, to supply 3D-printed metal parts for commercial aircraft.
Continue readingA Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, researcher and his colleagues have created a lightweight but very strong structural metal that could improve energy efficiency in aerospace, automobile, defense, mobile electronics, and biomedical applications.
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Imagine an aircraft that could alter its wing shape in midflight and, like a pelican, dive into the water before morphing into a submarine.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, have found that novel light-weight composite metal foams (CMFs) are significantly more effective at insulating against high heat than the conventional base metals and alloys that they’re made of, such as steel.
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New approach to preventing embrittlement could be useful in nuclear reactors.
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The Henry Clifton Sorby Award is presented annually to recognize lifetime achievement in the field of metallurgy. Recipients are acknowledged for 25 years or more of dedication to research, teaching, or laboratory sales and service.
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By 2025, mining asteroids may be as commonplace as digging a hole in your backyard.
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Granta Design Ltd., England, offers university educators and students the new CES EduPack, “Products, Materials, and Processes Database,” which includes both the Designer’s View and the Engineer’s View of materials information.
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ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, announces that the new principal editor of the Metallurgical and Materials Transactions (Met Trans) family of journals will be Dr. Tresa M. Pollock, an internationally recognized leader in the science and technology of advanced structural alloys.
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The National Football League (NFL), Under Armour, General Electric , and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), recently announced the five winners of Head Health Challenge III, an open innovation competition to support the discovery, design, and development of advanced materials that better absorb or dissipate impact.
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With the arrival of winter, stores, cities, and homeowners are stocking up on salt, gravel, and sand in anticipation of slippery roads.
Continue readingCan you imagine a future where your car is fueled by iron powder instead of gasoline?
Continue readingMore than a decade ago, theorists predicted the possibility of a nanolens—a chain of three nanoscale spheres that would focus incoming light into a spot much smaller than possible with conventional microscopy.
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Bell Helicopter, Fort Worth, Texas, completed the Bell V-280 tiltrotor fuselage last year ahead of schedule and within budget.
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Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate temperature sensors, LED lights, and other electronics, as well as tiny, drug-delivering reservoirs and channels.
Continue readingPuris LLC, Bruceton Mills, W. Va., recently signed a limited (partially) exclusive, term license agreement with NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Cleveland to produce a high-performance alloy enhanced with hafnium 60NiTi(Hf) that will be marketed under the brand name SM-103TM.
Continue readingA research effort led by the University of Colorado Boulder to develop an inexpensive, “do-it-yourself” coating to retrofit energy-inefficient windows in residential and commercial buildings has been given a $4 million boost over three years by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Genvac Aerospace Inc., Cleveland, launched a crowdfunding campaign introducing Rock Hard Metal, a line of diamond-enhanced guitar picks.
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Purchase of a new EOSINT P 760 will complement existing manufacturing processes and support development projects
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Leading aerospace OEM acquires an Okuma horizontal machining center with patented cryogenic machining system and increases cutting speeds by 52% with improved surface integrity and part quality, estimates a 30% cost reduction for large titanium airframe components.
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Researchers at MIT have shown that by exploiting the polarization of light, they can increase the resolution of conventional 3D imaging devices as much as 1000 times.
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