ASM Handbooks The World’s Best and Most Comprehensive Materials Reference Guides Volume 1: Properties and Selection: Irons, Steels, and High-Performance Alloys Volume 1 addresses the selection and application of ferrous metals and alloys, including cast irons, carbon and low-alloy steels, tool steels, stainless steels, and nickel and cobalt-base superalloys. As the lead volume in the […]
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New Releases Keep up with the most relevant resources in your field with ASM’s newest releases. Volume 4F: Quenchants and Quenching Technology As a comprehensive update of the best-selling title Handbook of Quenchants and Quenching Technology (ASM International, 1993), this volume reviews the metallurgy of irons and steels and the changes that occur in response […]
Image-processing method improves electron microscopy of rubber materials
Scientists at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, developed an innovative imaging method that clearly visualizes nanoscale structures within rubber materials. The new method takes traditional electron microscopy of these materials to the next level.
Spectroscopy technique used to study long-term aging in batteries
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois announced the creation of an innovative set of methods to evaluate long-term aging in real-world battery cells. The methods their researchers developed and demonstrated are based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
The most important material ever made
Glass is one of the most important materials humans have ever made; in this video, see Corning’s Gorilla Glass and how it protects our devices.