Quasicrystals, once considered impossible, were found in a 3D-printed aluminum alloy – and they make it stronger. This could ...

Andrew Iams saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope. He was examining a sliver of a new aluminum ...

In the final cutting stage, intricate patterns, committed to memory ... coming together of contemporary lighting design and ...

In 2017, a team at HRL Laboratories, based in California, and UC Santa Barbara discovered a high-strength aluminum alloy that could be 3D printed. They found that adding zirconium to the aluminum ...

There are only 230 possible ways for atoms to form repeating crystal patterns. Quasicrystals don ... I think it will open up a new approach to alloy design," says Zhang. "We've shown that ...