Aluminium nitride (AlN) ceramics have received significant attention owing to their excellent thermal conductivity, robust mechanical properties and potential for radiation resistance. Their unique ...

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has for some time been perfecting a process of hardening metals, mainly for the tooling and materials processing industries, known as ...

Wall Colmonoy Corp. has found a new use for its Nicrobraz Green Stop-Off product: the company calls it ``excellent'' for use in ion nitriding of steels. Green Stop-Off is a surface-active chemical ...

Titanium has a tendency to gall when in rubbing contact with itself and other surfaces. A number of techniques have been developed to engineer the titanium surface and overcome this problem: In the ...