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5 Ws: Lighting
In the operating room, you can produce bioresorbable metal implants, such as screws for bone fractures.
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Articles: Energy
Learn how advanced materials are creating high-efficiency engines, better powertrains, and lighter components.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Magnesium is 75 percent lighter than steel, 33 percent lighter than aluminum, and is the fourth most common element on Earth behind iron, silicon, and oxygen. But despite its light...
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Articles: Materials
Historically, high-strength materials have been heavy and dense. The need for high-strength but lightweight materials has become more widespread when designing everything from vehicles and...
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Briefs: Materials
Lightweight, High-Strength Nanocomposite Magnesium for Radiators
The next generation of radiators will be designed using a composite with the combination of the lowest density, highest thermal conductivity, and highest strength. A scalable, low-cost process was developed to advance state-of-the-art metal matrix thermal conductors to reach a...

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