Nissan, Japan, has adopted valve seats manufactured using cold spray technology, marking a world-first application in automotive engines.
Nissan introduces world’s first valve seat using cold spray technology in new e-POWER dedicated engine
Spray Tips: Vaporization and precipitation during solution thermal spraying
Droplets entering the plasma undergo rapid vaporization, solute supersaturation, and precipitation, leading to different shell formation and breakup routes during thermal spray processing.
Advanced Materials & Processes, Volume 183, Issue 6, September 2025 (ASM International)
The September 2025 issue of Advanced Materials & Processes magazine has an editorial focus on Advanced Manufacturing.
NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year
Engineers Chris Kantzos and Tim Smith from the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland can now call themselves inventors. They are the minds behind NASA Glenn’s breakthrough material, GRX-810. Their superalloy, developed for extreme conditions of air and spaceflight, was selected as NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year for 2025. It was picked for its […]
Forging the future: advancing military and civil works with metal additive manufacturing
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is dedicated to solving the nation’s most complex challenges in civil and military engineering, geospatial sciences, water resources, and environmental sciences. As part of its mission to maintain technological superiority and strengthen defense infrastructure, ERDC’s Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, in collaboration with the Information Technology Laboratory, […]