Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prizes 2004
...rostructural changes in the structure of aluminium alloys that arise as a result of such heating. She also developed a method of recording forming limit diagrams, which make it possible to estimate the forming properties of sheet metals. This work has been important in assessing the behaviour of metallic ma...Ethanol to power the future of hydrogen fuel cells
...trodes to oxidize ethanol. These materials are not alloys but have ordered structures wherein atoms are very specifically arranged. Electrolysis of water using hydroelectric or nuclear, wind, or solar power also produces hydrogen. However, in the present economic condition, these methods may not prove to be...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2003
...vision has developed a new family of nickel-chrome alloys that form a protective and electrically conductive chrome-nitride surface on the bipolar plates. Use of thin metallic bipolar plates will reduce the size and weight of fuel cell stacks and increase the power density. This new breed of bipolar plates ...UC San Diego researchers receive $14 million from NSF for 10 new information technology projects
...deposited oxides onto antimony-based semiconductor alloys (InAs, GaSb, AlSb, and their alloys). The aim is to achieve understanding of basic mechanisms of Fermi level unpinning of oxide-ternary semiconductor interfaces. $499,859 2003-06 Universal Compression of Infinite Alphabets with Applicati...DFG to establish 14 new priority programmes
...de properties. The application range for magnesium alloys in lightweight structures is to be expanded by developing new models and methods, from the production of the alloy via the specific manipulation of the microstructure through to controlling the material's properties (Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Karl Ulric...INEEL competes successfully for DOE EMSP funding
...e second project will evaluate how stainless steel alloys survive three decades of underground storage. Since most long-term waste repositories and disposal facilities will be underground, test results will help understand long-term integrity, corrosion impacts, and contaminant transport from containers. "S...Nanomuscles show promise in industrial and medical applications
...6, 2002--Nanomuscles, based on either shape memory alloys (SMAs) or carbon nanotube fibers, are gaining attention due to their potential for use in the human body or to replace small motors in industry. Shape memory alloys, for example, are 'smart' materials on the leading edge of development. The SMA, a mi...University of Florida engineers probe 'shape memory' alloy for better prostheses
...elop a prototype arm prosthesis using shape memory alloys in about five years. Prostheses, however, are not the only potential application for such large-scale nitinol devices. Nitinol already is used in outer space, for example in cylinders placed around bolts that elongate under temperature change, breaki...Story tips from the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2002
...archers conducted studies that showed that certain alloys were far more resistant than the industry standard stainless steel. Over the past few years, new or retrofitted boilers have been installed at paper mills from Longview, Wash., to Plymouth, N.C. Each boiler saves about 370 billion British thermal uni......c materials like elastic polymers and shape memory alloys (SMAs) to see how they can be used to mimic muscle propulsion, and studies are underway to compartmentalize these motions and develop modules to produce a desired navigational motion and control it. To do this, researchers are studying among other ......than 100 years, metallic nickel and certain of its alloys were recommended as "reasonably anticipated" by a ... but the second and third panels voted against the alloys being listed, recommending only that nickel itself be listed. Talc. Natural mineral talc contai...Advisory panel on federal report on carcinogens makes recommendations to NIEHS/NTP for new listings
... But the panel voted against also listing certain alloys of nickel as well. The alloys have many uses as specialty steels and stainless steels and are used in some medical implants. Tric......ting was deferred until metallic nickel and nickel alloys could undergo additional specific review. Staff papers on the proposals can be read at http://roc.niehs.nih.gov/rocpublic...Fuel cell research center to develop and test new technologies
...d energy density; (6) development of new electrode alloys and polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries; (7) development of new methods for faster, more efficient battery charging; (8) and modeling of battery power sources for electric and hybrid-electric vehicle designers and users. Georgia Tech researche...Cadmium makes brittle bones in Rocky Mt. birds
...sed to manufacture rechargeable batteries, produce alloys with other metals and electroplate chrome on auto parts and appliances. It has been mined in the Colorado Rockies for more than a century. Cadmium finds its way into the environment when rainwater washes through the piles of ore tailings at abandon...NASA Materials Conference Features Science Results, Experts on Technologies for Exploration
...:50 a.m. -12:30 p.m. - Technical Sessions: Metals, alloys and dendrites....DFG to set up 21 new collaborative research centres in 2000
...de range of applications available for form-memory alloys -- extending from mechanical engineering, to medical engineering and finally to aero-space, the demand profiles relating to this material are manifold. Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gunther Eggeler, Institut fur Werkstoffe, tel.: 0234/322 8022 The strengtheni...Technotes -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's summer news tipsheet
...todevelop a technique to separate aluminum casting alloys from sheet alloys orother lightweight materials based on their difference in melting temperature. Asecond project, wh......technology uses tiny atomised droplets of metallic alloys toproduce components that in many cases are strong... of traditionally produced parts and in manycases, alloys previously unsuitable for use in aerospace parts can be fullyutilised. Patrick Grant from the Defenc...... and academicswho have implied that these types of alloys with less than 2 percent berylliumcontent are safe," said Ron Balkissoon, M.D., an author of the article and amember of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences atNational Jewish. Beryllium copper alloy, commonly containing 1 ...