JOM back issues from January 2007:
In the Final Analysis
Jan 01, 2007; ... "A human being must have an occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world." -Dorothy L. Sayers While having un occupation has kept me from being a first-class nuisance in society, it has also provided me the opportunity to he a world-class annoyance to a ...
New Alloys Promise Cost and Energy Savings for Chemical and Petrochemical Industries
Jan 01, 2007; ... At the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, scientists have developed a new materials alloy that is resistant to metal dusting degradation and could find use in the chemical and petrochemical industries. The Argonne alloy resists metal dusting, a type of degradation ...
Casting Research Center Focuses on Lightweight Cars
Jan 01, 2007; ... At McMaster University in Canada, a new research center has opened that will focus on the development of lighter, stronger, more fuel-efficient cars. The new Light Metal Casting Research Centre, part of the McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute, is already working with industry and ...
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering Plays Prominent Role at TMS 2007 Annual Meeting
Jan 01, 2007; ... Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) seeks to combine resources and share knowledge among various parties working in computational materials engineering. ICME builds upon TMS strengths in computational materials science, and attendees at the IMS 2007 Annual Meeting in February ...
ADVANCE Leader Scheduled to Speak at 2007 Women's Breakfast
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abigail Stewart is the principal investigator on an Institutional Transformation grant funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) ADVANCE program. The project is at the University of Michigan and aims to improve the recruitment and retention of women faculty in science and engineering. At ...
Butterfly Wing Offers Template for Photonic Structures
Jan 01, 2007; ... By replicating the micro- and nanometer scale photonic structures that help give butterfly wings their color, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a new technique to fabricate nanoscale structures for use in photonic integrated circuits. Materials ...
Task Force Requests Increased Research in Basic Defense
Jan 01, 2007; ... The Task Force on the Future of American Innovation recently released a report on U.S. competitiveness, which calls on U.S. President George W. Bush to include funding for basic U.S. Department of Defense research in his American Competitiveness Initiative in 2008, the Federation of Materials ...
The Application of Scanning Probe Microscopy in Materials Science Studies
Jan 01, 2007; ... The family of techniques known as scanning probe microscopy (SPM) was invented in 1981 by Binnig and Rohrer. The most common methods are scanning-tunneling microscopy, atomic-force microscopy (AFM), and near-field scanning optical microscopy, although hundreds of other variants have since been ...
Shape-Changing Plastics Developed for Medical, Industrial Applications
Jan 01, 2007; ... Rearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers have developed materials that can assume three different shapes, depending on how much heat is applied. The agile plastics could find use in medical and industrial ...
Players Choose Leather Basketballs over Composites
Jan 01, 2007; ... At the beginning of the 2006/2007 basketball season, the National Basketball Association (NBA) introduced a new official game ball to be used for all NBA games. The ball's surface, made of a microfiber composite, was designed to provide players with a more consistent grip and bounce. However, at ...
BUSINESSLINE
Jan 01, 2007; ... News and Notes from Materials Industries Alcan: Alcan (Montreal, Canada) has agreed to acquire the business and assets of Penske Composites LLC (Mount Juliet, Tennessee), a manufacturer of reinforced structural urethane core materials products for the marine and industrial ...
WASHINGTON NEWS
Jan 01, 2007; ... From Betsy Houston, Federation of Materials Societies New Congress to Face Funding Issues: When the 10th Congress adjourned in in early December, members punted weighty funding decisions to the 110th session, with its many new faces and slim Democratic majority. The January convening of ...
Tip Dilation and AFM Capabilities in the Characterization of Nanoparticles
Jan 01, 2007; ... Scanning-probe microscopy has been routinely employed as a surface characterization technique for more than 20 years. Tip deconvolution, the longest-standing problem associated with particle image analysis in atomic force microscopy (AFM), can be solved by scanning a pre-characterized nanoshere ...
The Influence of Grain Boundaries and Texture on Ferroelectric Domain Hysteresis
Jan 01, 2007; ... As ferroelectric device dimensions continue to shrink, the increasing ratio of boundary to bulk necessitates a thorough understanding of interfacial properties. Accordingly, the local piezoelectric hysteresis of a polycrystalline lead zirconate titunate thin film is quantitatively measured and ...
Mapping Mechanical Properties on the Nanoscale Using Atomic-Force Acoustic Microscopy
Jan 01, 2007; ... Tools are being developed that use the atomic-force microscope (AFM) to measure mechanical properties with nanoscale spatial resolution. Contact-resonance-spectroscopy techniques such as atomic-force acoustic microscopy involve the vibrational modes of the AFM cantilever when its tip is in ...
Young's Modulus Studies of Electrospun TiO^sub 2^-Carbon Nanotubes
Jan 01, 2007; ... TiO^sub 2^ (anatase)-multi-walted carbon nanotube composite nanofibers with an average diameter of 63 nm were prepared via sol-gel chemistry in combination with an electrospinning process. The obtained nanocomposite fibers were characterized with scanning-electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, ...
Phase Stability, Phase Transformation, and Reactive Phase Formation in Electronic Materials
Jan 01, 2007; ... The development of electronic products has dramatically changed the life of human beings in the last decade, and its amazing influence continues. Phase stability, phase transformation, and reactive phase formation in electronic materials are crucial to the properties and reliability of ...
The Physical Properties of Electronic Materials as Determined by EMF Measurements
Jan 01, 2007; ... The measurement of the electromotive force (EMF) of a suitable galvanic cell is one of the most accurate methods to obtain thermodynamic information of alloys. For a chemist, all chemical reactions are, in a sense, electrochemical reactions since all chemical interactions at the atomic level are ...
Phase Transformation and Microstructural Evolution in Solder Joints
Jan 01, 2007; ... Soldering is the most important of joining technologies and there there numerous solder joints in modern electronic products. The phases and microstntciures of solder joints are critical to their properties. Various remarkahle phenomena caused hy phase transformation and microstructural ...
The Evolution of Diffusion Barriers in Copper Metallization
Jan 01, 2007; ... Refractory metal nitride thin films have been widely developed as the diffusion barriers for the aluminum or copper interconnects in integrated circuits. This study reviewed the evolution of diffusion barriers in copper metallization. First, materials characteristics and electrical properties of ...
Mechanical Property Optimization via Microstructural Control of New Metastable Beta Titanium Alloys
Jan 01, 2007; ... β-titanium alloys are increasingly used thanks to their high mechanical properties resulting from a clever choice of processing parameters. The effects of heat-treatment conditions on the microstructure of two recent β-metastable titanium alloys are investigated in this study, along ...
Microstructural Formation in Ti Alloys: In-Situ Characterization of Phase Transformation Kinetics
Jan 01, 2007; ... The prediction of microstructure during processing needs to characterize the phase transformation occurring during the thermal treatments and their kinetics. In-situ high-energy synchrotron x-ray diffraction experiments performed during temperature variations allow the characterization of the ...
The Microstructural Characterization and Simulation of Titanium Alloys Modified with Boron
Jan 01, 2007; ... Strength and stiffness of conventional titanium alloys (e.g., Ti-6Al-$V) can be significantly improved while maintaining adequate fracture properties via additions of small amounts of boron. Boron-modified titanium alloys have the potential to expand the usage of titanium and are attractive for ...
Dynamic Recovery and Recrystallization in Titanium Alloys by Hot Deformation
Jan 01, 2007; ... The microstructural change of β titanium alloys, Tt-15V-3Cr-3Sn-3Al and Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al, and an (α+β) titanium alloy, Ti-6Al-4V, during hot deformation at temperatures in β single-phase and (α + β) two-phase regions was studied. For the β titanium alloys, ...
Direct Reduction Processes for Titanium Oxide in Molten Salt
Jan 01, 2007; ... Molten salt electrolysis using CaCl^sub 2^ is employed to produce pure titanium and its alloys directly from TiO^sub 2^ and a mixture of elemental oxides, respectively, as an alternate to the Kroll process. This is because CaO, which is a reduction by-product, is highly soluble in CaCl^sub 2^ ....
Meetings Calendar
Jan 01, 2007; ... Presenting upcoming meetings and calls for papers Abstract Submissions: For TMS-sponsored meetings, abstracts must be submitted through CMS-Plus, the the-line TMS conference and proceedings management system, unless otherwise noted. The system can be accessed at cmsplus.tms.org. Symposia ...
United States Supreme Court Rules That Permanent Injunctions Are Not Automatic in Patent Cases
Jan 01, 2007; ... A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that a prevailing patent owner in a patent infringement case cannot assume that it will obtain a permanent injunction against future infringing conduct. In the past, courts have generally granted a permanent injunction to the prevailing patent owner in ...