The secret to how steel hardens and shape-memory alloys snap into place lies in rapid, atomic-scale shifts that scientists ...

Crystal Structures Key to Steel’s Design Flexibility. Feb. 7, 2023. Material engineers have mapped out the reasons some steels are better than others and how to make those better still.

For thousands of years, humans have combined metals to collectively harness properties found in individual components, producing such practical materials as bronze, brass and, more recently, steel.

The layered structure of Damascus steel can usually be recognized by a characteristic striped pattern. Laser modifies crystal structure Although ferrous alloys exist that are both hard and tough, they ...

image: Waveform (left) and crystal structure model (right) obtained by nuclear magnetic resonance experiments of the composite anion material Pb2Ti4O9F2.

That's how the project went from 2.2 million new structures to focusing on the 380,000 best options. This data was also fed back into the model, enhancing its predictive powers.

We know of around 48,000 inorganic crystal structures, which provide materials with a range of properties. Now, an AI created by Google DeepMind has predicted over 2 million more possibilities ...

Structural determination of complex anion materials by an interdisciplinary approach. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 10 / 221028111633.htm ...

A team from Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE – iron research) in Düsseldorf, Germany and the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology, in Aachen, has developed a process that allows the ...