DARPA Innovation Fellowship

September 15, 2022
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DARPA Innovation Fellowship

DARPA, Arlington, Va., is accepting applications for its Innovation Fellowship, a two-year position for early career scientists and engineers.

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Open-source software enables researchers to visualize nanoscale structures in real time


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Open-source software enables researchers to visualize nanoscale structures in real time

A University of Michigan-led team of engineers and software developers developed a new beta version of tomviz, an open-source 3D data visualization tool software that connects directly to an electron microscope, enabling researchers to see and manipulate 3D visualizations of nanomaterials in real time, and is already used by tens of thousands of researchers.

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Solar Atmospheres acquires Vac-Met Inc.

September 7, 2022
Source: ASM International

Solar Atmospheres acquires Vac-Met Inc.

Solar Atmospheres Inc. announces the acquisition of Vac-Met Inc., increasing its total commercial vacuum heat treating and brazing facilities to five plants across the U.S.

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One Minute Mentor:Salt bath hardening line for high-speed steels

September 4, 2022
Source: ASM International

One Minute Mentor:Salt bath hardening line for high-speed steels

Tools that are heat treated in molten salt baths are heated up much more rapidly than by convection or radiation, thereby heat treating times are significantly shortened. The molten salt provides a ready source of heat and maintains the rate of heating necessary to reach equilibrium with the rate of heat absorption.

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Metal reformation at nanometer scales


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Metal reformation at nanometer scales

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has published a new study that shows what happens when crystalline grains in metals reform at nanometer scales, improving metal properties. This includes recrystallization, in which the metal is deformed and heated.

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