Abakan Inc., Miami, Fla., announces several recent developments related to its PComP protective coatings.
PComP-coated roller screens for iron ore pellets look like new after six months
How It’s Made Lithium Ion Batteries
Watch Lithium Ingot Turn Into Car Batteries Lithium is the lightest of all metals (the third element in the periodic table), has the greatest electrochemical potential, and provides the highest energy density. This video from How it’s Made shows how an 11-pound lithium ingot is extruded and rolled to a thickness of 0.01 in. and […]
ASM International makes major update to alloy center database
ASM Alloy Center Database adds thousands of standards and commercial grades records.
How to 3D print a dinosaur
Scientists at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History are preserving its archives in digital format, making it possible for anyone to 3D print its artifacts.
Science solves seashell material mystery
Scientists have long been puzzled by a process that is crucial to much of the life in Earth’s oceans: Why does calcium carbonate, the tough material of seashells and corals, sometimes take the form of calcite, and at other times form a chemically identical form of the mineral called aragonite?