We all recognise the outstanding beauty and value of gold. Yet it is easy to overlook the important role for gold arising from its unique technical properties. Gold, like other important industrial metals, has many unique physical and chemical attributes that mean it is the best, indeed the only, material for certain industrial applications. The exciting podcast helps to explain how the technical properties of gold are being exploited for new, leading-edge technologies like industrial catalysts, optical materials, nanotechnology and biomedical applications, including possible new anti-cancer drugs.

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The core technology was derived from dry ice blasting but has evolved and now allows us to clean delicate items such as printed circuit boards making them contaminant-free, without introducing any other contaminants.

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The large chamber SEM’s manufactured by Visitec are unique and allow people from industries such as automotive, aerospace, steel etc. to test the real behaviour of entire components, or alternatively carry out non-destructive examinations on large samples such as engine blocks or turbine blades.

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Industries that have embraced these new video capture and non-contact extensometer technologies include the metals, plastics, automotive, medical and textile industries

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One of the big advantages of abrasive water jet cutting is that it can cut almost anything. It can cut hard ceramics, kevlar, carbon fibre composites, right down to soft materials such as sponge. The only thing we have found that it can’t cut is tempered glass.

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