Metals and alloys news, December 2012

Wires with stretch

Simple, fast and effective ultrathin films

Building better structural materials

Umicore and Evonik form business partnership

Umicore and Evonik Group subsidiary Evonik Litarion GmbH have formed a business relationship to supply lithium-ion cathode materials.

Metalysis process opens up the rare earth market

Metalysis reports that it can produce rare earth metals using transformational metal production technology.

Virtual Conference: Nanotechnology

Silver nanocubes as super light absorbers

New Sandvik plant in New Jersey

Sandvik and Sandvik Coromant have opened a new 108,000 ft2 facility near its current US headquarters in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA.

Indium-free organic light-emitting diodes

Enpirion develops world's first 2-dimensional thin-film magnetic cores

Enpirion says that it has successfully commercialised a new magnetic alloy, which enables the miniaturisation of passive magnetic components and their assi

EOS unveils new laser sintering machine

Latest innovation facilitates production of small precious metal parts.

Top 10 Materials Science News from November 2012

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