Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, PA, announced the commissioning of two additional 2-bar vacuum furnaces at its Eastern Pennsylvania facility. The expansion is aimed at supporting increased demand from the aerospace and industrial gas turbine industries, as well as specialized hydride/dehydride processing of reactive metals such as titanium, tantalum, and niobium. The newly installed furnaces, manufactured by […]
Smart Chain Mail Fabric Stiffens on Demand
Researchers have developed a new kind of material with adjustable and reversible properties. This new smart fabric is 3D printed with interlinked particles, like chain mail. Applying pressure jams the particles together and the fabric becomes stiff and solid until the pressure is released. This unusual property could be useful for reusable casts and other […]
Accelerating science with the Aurora supercomputer
Housed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, the Aurora supercomputer gives the global science community a powerful new research tool with unprecedented abilities for simulations, AI, and data analysis.




