Researchers have discovered a way to predict which alloys will form metallic glasses, materials with numerous desirable properties. The research could pave the way for new strong, conductive materials ...

Scientists explain how and why shear bands form in metallic glasses and make them more prone to break. Over time, when a metallic glass is put under stress, its atoms will shift, slide and ultimately ...

Making a new material is one thing, explaining how you did it is another. Materials engineering Ph.D. candidate Jerry Howard excels at both. Howard developed a new “recipe” for making metallic glass ...

Yale researchers have found a novel mechanism of how metallic glass deforms at a nanometer scale. Jan Schroers, a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, and Naijia Liu, a former ...

Metallic glass is an emerging type of material, so its secrets are still being discovered. While working with the stuff, a team of Yale researchers created a brand new type of metallic glass, by ...

A new breakthrough in the manufacturing of so called metallic glass, a material that is stronger than steel and titanium, could lead to a new generation of super-tough cell-phone cases and airplane ...

If you combine two or three metals together, you will get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns. But once in a while, under just the ...

(left) Photo of metallic-glass nanotubes fabricated on silicon and (right) a scanning electron microscopy image of the metallic-glass nanotubes. Oxidation can degrade the properties and functionality ...

(Nanowerk News) Oxidation can degrade the properties and functionality of metals. However, a research team co-led by scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently found that severely ...