Scanning lasers evaluated as part of an industrial process for hardening steel
Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, Spain, say they have validated a laser scanning optics system that may enable laser hardening of steel parts of varying shape and thickness at an industrial scale.
One Minute Mentor: The S-Phase
The success of plasma and gas nitriding at low temperatures (lower than 840°F) and solution nitriding at high temperatures is associated with the absence of chromium nitride or carbide precipitation, and thus with the formation in the surface layer of a particular phase called the S-phase.
New cement could cut carbon emissions
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, are hoping to develop a new cement from steel slag.
Atom-sized tunnels may lead to better battery
Battery researchers seeking improved electrode materials have focused on “tunneled” structures that make it easier for charge-carrying ions to move in and out of the electrode.