Tag: materials at extremes

Folding, thinner, lighter, and stronger wings signals a quiet retreat for aluminium in aerospace

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Airbus has just announced the next phase of its Wing of Tomorrow programme: a three-year flight-test campaign, unveiled at Farnborough, that will bolt full-scale wing extensions onto an A321neo to trial the longer, higher-aspect-ratio wings destined for the successor to its best-selling single-aisle family. The extensions are several metres long and stand in for a … Continue reading Folding, thinner, lighter, and stronger wings signals a quiet retreat for aluminium in aerospace

Rethinking copper metallurgy for the future of fusion reactors

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We are delighted to share a new preprint that takes on one of fusion energy's most stubborn materials problems: building a heat sink that can survive inside a reactor. Commercial fusion demands components that withstand intense neutron bombardment while extracting punishing heat loads for conversion to electricity, and CuCrZr — a copper alloy strengthened by … Continue reading Rethinking copper metallurgy for the future of fusion reactors

Grateful to be among the 2025 Rising Stars in Materials Science

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I am deeply humbled and grateful to the American Chemical Society and the editors of ACS Materials Au for selecting me as part of the 2025 class of Rising Stars in Materials Science. This recognition came as a wonderful surprise, and I am truly thankful to be included alongside 13 other outstanding early-career researchers from … Continue reading Grateful to be among the 2025 Rising Stars in Materials Science

Prof. Gerhard Sperl: a lifetime connecting metallurgy’s past and present

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There are scientists whose work is best understood through instruments, and there are those whose work is best understood through time. Gerhard Sperl – who passed away on Easter Monday, 5 April 2021, at the age of 84 — belonged firmly to the second kind, though he was thoroughly at home with the first. Born … Continue reading Prof. Gerhard Sperl: a lifetime connecting metallurgy’s past and present

Pushing the Limits of Aluminium Crossover Alloys

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Dr. mont. Patrick Willenshofer’s recent publication, “Influence of alloy chemistry and overaging on mechanical properties and corrosion resistance in aluminium crossover alloys”, is a remarkable contribution to the rapidly evolving field of advanced aluminium alloy development. This paper investigates the nuanced interplay between alloying elements and thermal history in novel AlMgZn-based crossover alloys enriched with copper … Continue reading Pushing the Limits of Aluminium Crossover Alloys

Andreas Weidinger: Pushing the Boundaries of Aluminium Alloy Research

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We are thrilled to spotlight the remarkable work of Andreas Weidinger, a doctoral researcher in the Chair of Nonferrous Metallurgy at Montanuniversität Leoben. Currently a visiting scholar at Chalmers University in Sweden, Andreas is making waves in the Swedish lands with his innovative research on aluminum alloys. His groundbreaking work with 5/7 crossover aluminum alloy … Continue reading Andreas Weidinger: Pushing the Boundaries of Aluminium Alloy Research

Nuclear Materials Biweekly Highlights – #1

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We initiate today a new series of posts in the blog targeting an specific niche of the materials at extremes community: the nuclear materials biweekly highlights. In this bimonthly newsletter, we will be covering some special picks of scientific research and development within the nuclear materials community. Obviously, the picks are made by this editor, … Continue reading Nuclear Materials Biweekly Highlights – #1