To create them, the process of modifying the steel surface with carbon, nitrogen, and alloy elements needs to be optimized. To understand the interactions between elements in steel, a systematic ...

Alloying, the art of blending metals with other elements, has long been a cornerstone of materials science and metallurgy, creating materials with tailored properties. In contrast, dealloying has ...

Through precise control of the Cr/Ni ratio, the researchers synthesized two single-phase face-centered cubic (FCC) MPEAs with ...

In this research project, the interactions of light elements, which can improve or degrade the properties of steels significantly by a small addition, with nanostructures of iron are studied. By ...

Many pure metals are too soft for many uses. They can be made harder by adding another element to the pure metal, so forming an alloy. This explains why an alloy often has more uses than the pure ...

PNNL researchers Ankit Roy (left), Subhashish Meher and their teammates modeled different combinations of the elements in an alloy used in nuclear reactors to narrow in on a composition that might ...