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

[Rob Fertner]

But aren't the grains packed closer together and more uniform?

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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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> nanoparticles
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> 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-nanopartic
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> > s.html
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> > Rob
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> > Wichita, KS
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