THE eighth Edgar Marburg lecture of the American Society for Testing Materials was delivered by Dr. H. J. Gough, his subject being “Crystalline Structure in Relation to Failure of Metals—especially by ...

Metals consist of stacked layers of tightly packed, interacting atoms arranged in geometric patterns. Each of these atoms contains a small number of loosely held electrons in its outer shell. When ...

(Nanowerk News) Take a wire paperclip. Now, bend it back and forth in the same spot 15, maybe 20 times. Chances are the paperclip will have broken before you finish. This is due to what’s called metal ...

Crystal structures underpin the physical properties of materials, while intermetallic compounds—characterised by well‐defined stoichiometries and ordered arrangements of metallic elements—offer a rich ...

Better glass-forming metals have sharper liquid-to-liquid phase transitions than average glass-forming metals.

(Nanowerk News) For more than 100 years, scientists have been using X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of crystalline materials such as metals, rocks, and ceramics. This technique works ...