Northwest Mettech, North Vancouver, British Columbia, has developed a NanoFeed line of liquid and suspension feeders to enable delivery of submicron powders to thermal spray torches.
Puris LLC, Bruceton Mills, W. Va., recently signed a limited (partially) exclusive, term license agreement with NASA Glenn Research Center to produce a high-performance, hafnium-enhanced shape-memory powder metallurgy alloy that provides resistance to both wear and corrosion.
Zwick USA, Kennesaw, Ga., announces that it has sold two robotic testing systems to Hydro Aluminum in Germany, the Z020 materials testing machine and the roboTest L specimen feeding system.
University of California at Los Angeles researchers have reportedly designed a magnesium-matrix composite reinforced with a dense and even dispersal of silicon carbide nanoparticles.
The December issue of Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis features the classic article, “Grain Shapes and Other Metallurgical Applications of Topology” by Cyril Stanley Smith.
