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New Software Could Speed Up Design and Testing of Metallic Glasses

Want a tennis racket that propels balls faster than a race car or a sturdy ship hull that never rusts? Finding the recipes for such remarkable materials-called amorphous metals-should be easier using a new computational ...

3 Sep 2004

Titanium Dioxide Key to Producing Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight

A team of Australian scientists predicts that a revolutionary new way to harness the power of the sun to extract clean and almost unlimited energy supplies from water will be a reality within seven years. Using specia...

26 Aug 2004

UK Allocate £15m to Funding Nanotechnology Projects

Nanotechnology, the engineering of materials and working devices at the scale of atoms and molecules, was given a major boost by the Department of Trade and Industry today. Twenty five projects throughout the country ...

24 Aug 2004

3M’s Aluminum Composite Conductor Reinforced to Receive First Commercial Application

3M's new Aluminum Composite Conductor Reinforced (ACCR), an overhead power conductor that doubles the electrical transmission capacity of conventional conductors of the same diameter, will receive its first commercia...

17 Aug 2004

ASTM Committee on Corrosion of Metals Creates Hydrogen Materials Task Group

Hydrogen has been proposed as a clean source of energy for the new century. However, there are concerns that high-pressure hydrogen may cause some materials to experience unexpected cracking problems in service. It is al...

4 Aug 2004

Kobe Steel to Cease Production of Chromate-Treated Electro-Galvanized Steels

Kobe Steel, Ltd. announces that it plans to stop production of chromate-treated electrogalvanized (EG) steel sheet by March 2005. It will be the first Japanese steelmaker to take this step. Chromate treatment has bee...

From Kobe Steel 21 Jul 2004

US Promote Fuel Cell Development to Hasten Zero Emissions Energy

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham today announced a new phase of fuel-cell research designed to hasten the wider availability of zero-emissions energy. Eleven new projects with total value of nearly $4.2 million, inclu...

20 Jul 2004

Faster Test For Checking The Efficiency Of The Paints Used As Protection Against Corrosion In The Automotive Industry

Researchers from the Area of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Spain, have devised a quicker method to evaluate the systems used in the automotive industry to protect the m...

16 Jul 2004

3M Introduce High Performance Diamond Pad Polisher Conditioner for CMP of Semiconductors

3M today introduced an innovative high-performance diamond pad conditioner - the 3M Diamond Pad Conditioner A4-55 - for oxide chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) that upholds 3M's commitment to quality, while off...

13 Jul 2004

University of Virginia Scientists Develop Amorphous Steel – 3X Stronger than Conventional Steel

Scientists at the University of Virginia have announced the discovery of a non-magnetic amorphous material that is three times stronger than conventional steel and has superior anti-corrosion properties. A future variati...

7 Jul 2004

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