Sentences with phrase «glassy metal»

The article «Glassy Metal» [April] makes these materials sound virtually indestructible, which gives rise to the question: What can be done with the stuff after it has done its job on a specific application?

In 2000 Johnson and his team came up with Liquidmetal2, which marries the strength and elasticity of glassy metal to the graceful failure of ordinary metal.

«Glassy metals will be a cut above both metals and plastics,» says Kang, looking up from a plasma arc melter in which he forges new formulations.

Not exact matches

Noah pulled a metal chair across the concrete patio and sat hunched over the water garden, silvery scales glinting as the fish darted beneath the water hyacinth... Ten minutes later all six were dead, floating glassy - eyed and white - bellied like sardines on the surface.»

Palladium is a metal with a high «bulk - to - shear» stiffness ratio that counteracts the intrinsic brittleness of glassy materials because the energy needed to form shear bands is significantly lower than the energy required to turn these shear bands into cracks.

Combinatorial depositions with intentional and well - controlled continuous gradients in process parameters (composition, temperature, film thickness, nanoparticle size etc): wide range of thin film chemistries in separate chambers (metals, oxides, nitrides, sulfides); physical vapor deposition techniques (sputtering, pulsed laser deposition); different substrates and supports (glass, metals, glassy carbon, etc).

One semi-naked man with a glassy stare weaved past us with an ornate piece of tin filigree hammered through his tongue and a huge metal canopy festooned with tassels and fabric over his head.