Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Oklahoma City was awarded a five-year contract with the United States Air Force (USAF) for the remanufacture of F-16 fighter aircraft regenerative heat exchangers at the Tinker Air Force Base. Located in Oklahoma, Tinker Air Force Base is the headquarters of the Air Force Materiel Command’s (AFMC) Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center […]
Scientists have found the secret behind a property of solid materials known as ferroelectrics, showing that quasiparticles moving in wave-like patterns among vibrating atoms carry enough heat to turn the material into a thermal switch when an electrical field is applied externally. A key finding of the study is that this control of thermal conductivity […]
Plasmatreat GmbH, Germany, the world market leader for atmospheric plasma technology, is launching three new plasma nozzles that expand its large product portfolio to include applications for treating temperature-sensitive materials, the wide-area pretreating of surfaces, and homogeneous surface coating. Plasma technology can be used to modify the surface properties of a wide variety of materials […]
Each year, the United States spends almost a trillion dollars trying to combat metallic corrosion, an electrochemical reaction which occurs when metals oxidize and begin to rust. Now, a team of researchers led by the Ohio State University (OSU) has estimated how much corrosion is gradually worsening global carbon emissions. Although earlier research has already estimated the economic […]
A Missouri S&T research team was recently awarded a $2 million grant from the United States Department of Energy to research technologies to improve the operating efficiency of electric arc furnaces (EAFs) used for steelmaking. “It takes a tremendous amount of power to run an EAF, and we are looking for new ways to […]
