Special steel finds real applications
Quasicrystals serve one of their first commercial applications as part of a hard, yet flexible, steel alloy.
References:
Nilsson, J.-O., P. Lui, and M. Daugutov. 1998. Experimental observation and theoretical modelling of equilibrium quasicrystalline phase in a commercial maraging steel. Meeting of the Materials Research Society. November. Boston.
Further Readings:
Clusters and decagons. Science News 150(Oct. 12):232.Peterson, I. 1996.
Sources:
Jan-Olof Nilsson
AB Sandvik Steel
Department of Physical Metallurgy
S-811 81 Sandviken
Sweden
From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 24, December 12,
1998, p. 383.
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