SSAB, Stockholm, announces that the 2017 winner of the Swedish Steel Prize is Kiruna Wagon of Sweden for its Helix Dumper, a highly durable and far more efficient ore-unloading wagon than other ore wagons on the market.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., announces that Eck Industries, Manitowoc, Wis., has signed an exclusive license for the commercialization of a cerium-aluminum (Ce-Al) alloy that is easy to work with, lightweight, corrosion-resistant, and exceptionally stable at high temperatures.
UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, Spain, announces that its researchers have explored superelasticity properties on a nanometer scale based on shearing a Cu-14Al-4Ni shape-memory alloy’s pillars down to nanometric size.
McGill University, Montreal, announces that a team of chemists has developed a way to process metals with organic molecules, instead of chlorine and hydrochloric acid, to help purify germanium.
The graph shows thermogravimetric uptake curves for nitriding of AISI 316 at 445°C (830°F) in different NH3-H2 gas mixtures.
