Modern Metallurgist

A technical look at how materials science professor Cem Tasan is working on novel metals and materials for the future. Courtesy of MIT School of Engineering. For more information, visit dmse.mit.edu.

One Minute Mentor: Fluidized Bed

A fluid bed results when a gas is passed upward through a bed of small solid particles at a rate fast enough to lift these particles and to create turbulence. This motion of particles, which are usually made of aluminum oxide or silica oxide, is similar to that of a fluid, which can be seen […]