All Articles Tagged As: metals

New research shows why metal alloys degrade (9/25/2008)

Finding suggest that materials scientists could make longer-lasting alloys if they use metals with similar atomic hop rates, or manipulate the intrinsic hop rates by other mechanisms. ...> Full Article

Do the hyper-coordinate planar transition metal atoms exist? (7/4/2008)

Wheel-shaped structures with octa- and enneacoordinate planar cobalt, iron and nickel centered in perfect octagonal and enneagonal boron rings, are stable on corresponding potential hyper-surfaces ...> Full Article

Main group oxide goes metallic (4/16/2008)

Researchers succeeded for the first time in producing an insulator-metal transition in an oxide of a main group element ...> Full Article