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Article: Ductile intermetallic compounds discovered.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- October 6, 2003
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2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- To materials scientists the phrase "ductile intermetallic compounds" has long been considered an oxymoron. Although these compounds possess chemical, physical, electrical, magnetic, and mechanical properties that are often superior to ordinary metals, their potential has gone untapped because they are typically quite brittle at room temperature. Until now.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University have discovered a number of rare earth intermetallic compounds that are ductile at room temperature. The discovery, announced in an article in the September 2003 issue of Nature ...