Metals and alloys news, October 2011

Nano Energy

First Carl Zeiss workshop on correlative microscopy in life sciences

Nanotubes key to microscopic mechanics

EPMA 2011 Distinguished Service Awards to PM Technology and CEIT

The European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) has awarded its 2011 Distinguished Service Awards to Dr Olle Grinder, Founder of Sweden's PM Technology A

Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to Dan Shechtman

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Dan Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals."

Metal shortages alert from leading geologists

Sintered isotropic Sm-Fe-N to replace Nd-Fe-B magnets?

AIST in Japan has developed a technology to produce sintered isotropic samarium-iron-nitrogen (Sm-Fe-N) based magnets with properties similar to neodynium-

UK’s chief nuclear inspector reports on lessons from Fukushima

Bacterial response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for the discovery of quasicrystals

2011 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe

£50m boost for graphene research