OAK RIDGE, Tenn., April 7, 2011 -- Metal alloy manufacturer Carpenter Technology Corp. has licensed an alumina-forming austenitic stainless steel alloy developed at the Department of Energy's Oak ...

There are three different types of super alloys; iron-based, cobalt-based and nickel-based. Known for their good oxidation and creep resistance, super alloys can also be strengthened by precipitation ...

What has been impossible has now been shown to be possible -- an alloy between two incompatible elements. What has been impossible has now been shown to be possible – an alloy between two incompatible ...

Kobe Steel Ltd. says it has created the world's strongest aluminum alloy, with a tensile strength of 780 MPa, using a proprietary spray forming process. Sample bars of 10 mm in diameter and 100 mm in ...

Stripes, curved fibres, dot arrays and some exotic stripe-dot hybrids on the surface of a frozen liquid metal. (Courtesy: K Kalantar-Zadeh) Highly ordered nanopatterns spontaneously form on the ...

Solder is the conductive metal glue that one uses to stick components together. If you get the component and the PCB hot enough, and melt a little solder in the joint, it will stay put and conduct ...