Airbus Helicopters, Germany, has officially begun production of latch shafts for the doors of the A350 passenger aircraft by metal additive manufacturing.
Abstract 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.
Oerlikon 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.
Zinc 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.
U.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.