Airbus Helicopters, Germany, has officially begun production of latch shafts for the doors of the A350 passenger aircraft by metal additive manufacturing.
Continue readingAbstract from MS&T 2018: High Performance Amorphous Thermal Sprayed Coatings for Molten Salt Environment
Chloride salts have been identified as one of the promising media for thermal energy storage for achieving higher operating temperatures.
Continue readingOerlikon Metco’s Surface One thermal spray coating machine wins international awards
Oerlikon Metco, Switzerland, announces that its Surface One flagship machine for thermal spray coatings is the winner of two renowned international design awards.
Continue readingZinc oxide nanopillars deposited in surface coatings impale bacteria on nanospikes
The A-Star Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore, reports that its researchers have developed nanostructured coatings that annihilate microbes by piercing their cell walls.
Continue readingU.S. Department of Energy grant to advance electrolysis process for copper production.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, announces that associate professor of metallurgy Antoine Allanore has received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to run larger scale tests of a new way to produce copper using electricity to separate copper from melted sulfur-based minerals, which are the main source of copper.
Continue readingNorsk Titanium’s Rapid Plasma Deposition 3D printing process wins ITA award
Norsk Titanium, Norway, announces that it has been named the recipient of the International Titanium Association’s 2018 Titanium Application Development Award.
Continue readingAIST names flash bainite, nanotexturing, and steel foam as T.C. Graham Prize finalists
The Association for Iron & Steel Technology, Warrendale, Pa., has disclosed the three finalists for the third annual T.C. Graham Prize, which was established in 2014 through an endowment from one of the steel industry’s most successful and innovative executives, Tom C. Graham Sr.
Continue readingNASA announces call for proposals for Combustion Science and Materials Science
NASA has released a NASA Research Announcement titled “Use of the NASA Physical Sciences Informatics System – Appendix E,” which solicits ground-based research proposals to generate new scientific insights by utilizing experimental data residing in NASA’s Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI) system.
Continue readingJapanese scientists develop molybdenum-base high-temperature high-strength alloy
Tohoku University, Japan, reports that its researchers have developed a titanium carbide-reinforced, molybdenum-silicon-boron (Mo-Si-B)-based alloy, or MoSiBTiC, whose high-temperature strength was identified under constant forces in the temperature ranges of 2550 to 2900°F.
Continue readingHardline Heat Treating to invest $3.2 million to renovate buildings and expand operations
Hardline Heat Treating Inc., Southbridge, Mass., announces that Southbridge city council has approved a ten-year tax increment financing (TIF) agreement that will allow the company to invest $3.2 million and add ten jobs to its 36-person workforce.
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