To material scientists the phrase "ductile intermetallic compounds" has long been considered an oxymoron. Although these compounds possess chemical, physical, electrical, magnetic, and ...

A research team has developed a novel strategy to develop new high-strength alloys which are extremely strong and yet also ductile and flexible. The strategy overcomes the critical issues of the ...

Chemically this material is the same as grey iron and is iron-carbon-silicon alloy. It is one of the more recent developments in cast iron technology and has been around since 1948. As the name ...

Ideally, steels and steel-related alloys should be capable of both properties: they should not fragment, for example during processing in a mill or as car bodies involved in an accident. In other ...

A team of researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Tianmushan Laboratory, and the National University of Singapore has pioneered a new method for crafting an ultra-strong, ductile alloy using 3D ...

Gray iron is the original and most common cast iron, so named because of its fracture surface which is typically dark gray in colour. Due to its high carbon content, it has ‘flake graphite’ in its ...