Deep-Earth Structures Discovered That May Signal Enormous Hidden Metal Lodes
Finding new giant copper, lead, zinc deposits could fuel green infrastructure. If the world is to maintain a sustainable economy and fend off the worst…
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Breakthrough in Laser-Based Metal 3D-Printing Reduces Defects
Combining high-fidelity computer simulations with ultra-high-speed X-ray imaging, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have discovered a strategy for reducing or even eliminating defects…
New Technologies to Extract, Purify Critical Rare Earth Metals a ‘Game Changer’
The production of rare earth metals is a global $4 billion annual market that continues to grow as new electronics, computerized engines for aircraft, warships,…
Laser Treatment Turns Metal Surfaces Into Instant Bacteria Killers
Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces such as doorknobs could instantly kill them off? Purdue University engineers have…
Ultimate Strength of Metals Accurately Predicted With New Theoretical Model
A new model is able to accurately determine the peak strength of polycrystalline metals. To build safe and robust automobiles, spacecraft, and other technology, scientists…
Microscopic Refinement Yields Ultra-Strong Metal
You can’t see them, but most of the metals around you—coins, silverware, even the steel beams holding up buildings and overpasses—are made up of tiny…
‘Chameleon Metals’ Engineered to Change Surface Structure in Response to Heat
Just like a chameleon changes its skin color in response to its environment, engineers have found a way for liquid metal – and potentially solid…
Making Stronger 3D-Printed Alloys Using Ultrasound
Researchers have used sound vibrations to shake metal alloy grains into tighter formation during 3D printing. A study just published in Nature Communications on January…
Atomic-Level Imaging May Enable Metals With Unprecedented Properties
High-entropy alloys, which are made from nearly equal parts of several primary metals, could hold great potential for creating materials with superior mechanical properties. But…
Revolutionary New Discovery on Metal Malleability
For nearly 100 years, scientists thought they understood everything there was to know about how metals bend. They were wrong. Materials science and engineering researchers…
MIT Chemists Discover Unexpected Enzyme Structure
Many microbes have an enzyme that can convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide. This reaction is critical for building carbon compounds and generating energy, particularly…
Discovery May Lead to New Crack-resistant Metal Alloys
A new discovery by researchers at Arizona State Univeristy points the way to designing crack-resistant metal alloys with different microstructures. Sometimes looking at something at…
Billionaires and Futurists Plan Space Missions to Mine Asteroids for Metals
It’s been long thought, especially in science fiction, that once Earth’s dwindling metallic resources dry up, the human race would look to the stars for…