Metals and Alloys Archives - Page 13 of 17

Ames and Oak Ridge awarded $5 million to improve metal powders for 3D printing

Ames Laboratory, Iowa, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., have been awarded $5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office to improve the production and composition of metal alloy powders for additive manufacturing.

Ruby red crystal is out of this world

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, Iowa, are being credited with creating the first intermetallic double salt with platinum.

Study Sheds Light on Akko Tower Shipwreck

The Akko Tower Wreck has been playing tricks with researchers for over 50 years.

Flaws cause cracks in material considered for flexible electronics

The electronics industry may want to look more carefully at the properties of 2D materials before incorporating them in new technologies, according to a materials scientist.

MS&T 2016 Features Mini-Materials Camp

Hosted by the ASM Utah Chapter, 246 students participated in the ASM Mini-Materials Camp held during MS&T 2016 at Salt Lake Palace on October 25 and 26.

Wrinkles and crumples boost metal oxides

Researchers at Brown University, Providence, R.I., found a new method for making ultrathin metal-oxide sheets containing intricate wrinkle and crumple patterns. The textured metal-oxide films have better performance when used as photocatalysts and as battery electrodes.

Predicting how bonds break

Scientists at the University of Chicago, New York University, and Leiden University could eventually help create materials that resist breaking or crack in a predictable fashion.

PdMetrics software now included with Ipsen Titan heat treat systems

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that its PdMetrics platform is now included standard with its Titan heat treating systems.

Scrap metal makes a better battery

Engineers at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, used bits of metal scraps and a household chemical to create the world’s first steel-brass battery that can store energy at levels comparable to lead-acid batteries.

Feather-like airplane wing skin for flying efficiency

When the Wright brothers accomplished their first powered flight more than a century ago, they controlled the motion of their Flyer 1 aircraft using wires and pulleys that bent and twisted the wood-and-canvas wings.

3D printing partnership drives down vehicle weight

Divergent 3D entered into a global development partnership with engineering research and development firm Altran.

Micrograph Database Gets an Update

An important release to the ASM Micrograph Database was recently completed.

Growing gold for biomedical procedures

Grown like a snowflake and sharpened with a sewing machine, a novel device by Kansas State University researchers may benefit biomedical professionals and the patients they serve during electrode and organ transplant procedures.

Introducing a new program from the ASM Materials Education Foundation

Already well known for the Materials Camp Program for both high school students and teachers, the ASM Materials Education Foundation has launched the Materials Matter program for middle school students.

Finding alloys to form bulk metallic glass

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Cambridge, Mass., in collaboration with colleagues from Duke and Yale universities, recently developed a method to predict which alloys might form a bulk metallic glass.

Improving industrial drying saves energy

Funded by the National Science Foundation, a new center will attack one of the most energy-intensive processes in manufacturing; its research could help save 200 trillion BTUs of energy in U.S. each year.

Chromium in Martensitic Stainless Steels

Higher chromium alloys, the range over which full austenitization can occur is further restricted. The variety of martensitic stainless steels would be very limited if only chromium and carbon were available as alloying elements, but fortunately nickel can make an important contribution.

New material holds promise for low power electronics

Scientists have successfully paired ferroelectric and ferrimagnetic materials so that their alignment can be controlled with a small electric field at near room temperatures, an achievement that could open doors to ultralow-power microprocessors, storage devices, and next-generation electronics.

One Minute Mentor: Martensitic Stainless Steels

A stainless martensitic alloy should have the following characteristics:
• It must have at least 10.5% chromium to qualify as stainless, and even more for better corrosion resistance.
• It should be fully austenitic at some temperature.
• The temperature at which austenite forms on heating should be sufficiently high to permit tempering above the temper embrittlement range.

Enhanced 3D look inside batteries

A team of chemists has developed a method to yield highly detailed, 3D images of the insides of batteries. The technique, based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), offers an enhanced approach to monitor the condition of these power sources in real time.