[TheForge] New technique builds super-hard metals from nanoparticles

[Bruce]

It seemed to me that they were harder not because of density but because of
control of the individual grains.
Bruce
NJ


On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 4:31 PM Rob Fertner <rfertner at cox.net> wrote:

> I'm assuming they're harder because they are denser. I wonder if this would
> make them harder to forge?
>
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> Behalf Of Walter
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> nanoparticles
>
> I wonder if these could then become the plastics of tomorrow where they are
> something we can not reuse or get rid of.
>
> On 1/25/2021 2:44 PM, Rob Fertner wrote:
> > Some interesting metallurgy developments:
> >
> > https://phys.org/news/2021-01-technique-super-hard-metals-nanoparticle
> > s.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > Wichita, KS
>
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