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Friday, June 10, 2005
Metallic glass
This could be useful: an amorphous (i.e. non-crystaline) metal alloy with a glass transition temperature of only 68 C. It was developed by Wei Hua Wang of the Institute of Physics in Beijing. See here for details.
Interesting - conductive, relatively stable and resistant to oxidation.
ReplyDeleteThe results are also available here as a free PDF, no registration required:
http://www.iphy.ac.cn/Chinese/kjdt2005/0510_7.pdf
Vik :v)
Solid sugar?
ReplyDeleteVik :v)
Vik - I think the link should be:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.iphy.ac.cn/Chinese/kjdt2005/0525_12.pdf
Yours
Adrian