Metals

News and Updates

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NIST Team Directs and Measures Quantum Drum Duet

May 6, 2021

Like conductors of a spooky symphony, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have “entangled” two small mechanical drums and

Microscope image shows blue and green jagged shapes

Spotlight: Exploring Potential Corrosion in 3D-Printed Titanium

February 12, 2021

Putting the metalloid to the metal, researchers at Boise State University developed a new way to explore how a 3D-printed titanium alloy corrodes, and then

Alloy mapping shows areas in red, blue, and and other colors.

Spotlight: Unique Alloy for the Automotive Industry

January 25, 2021

Hypothetical scenario: A car hurtles toward a tree and swerves to avoid it when the passenger door meets timber and deforms around it. As the driver, you don't

Projects and Programs

Integrated Density Functional Theory (DFT) Data and Tools

Using atomistic-level calculations (density functional theory and classical molecular dynamics), this project aims at increasing our knowledge of electronic and

A current (white arrow) flowing through a tantalum film generates a current of spins (dark blue arrows) that impinges on the ferromagnetic cobalt iron boron layer and causes the magnetization (gold arrow) to charge directions (light blue arrow).

Theory of Spin-Orbit Torque

The working of countless electronic devices involves electric and magnetic effects interacting within nanostructured materials. In the phenomenon known as spin

Interatomic Potential Data and Simulations

This project provides resources to address some of the challenges to the wider use of classical atomistic simulations (e.g. molecular dynamics and Monte-Carlo)

Computational Tools for Materials Design

Computational materials design requires a variety of tools to model processing-structure-property relationships across a range of time and length scales. This

Publications

The impact of alloying on defect-free nanoparticles exhibiting softer but tougher behavior

May 4, 2021

Author(s)

Anuj Bisht, Raj Kiran Koju, Yuanshen Qi, James Hickman, Yuri Mishin, Eugen Rabkin

Multi-scale analyses of constituent phases in a trip-assisted duplex stainless steel by electron backscatter diffraction, in situ neutron diffraction, and energy selective neutron imaging

April 21, 2021

Author(s)

Daniel Hussey, Wanchuck Woo, Jongyul Kim

Micrometer to centimeter scale analyses of the crystalline phase volume fractions in a trip- assisted duplex stainless steel were performed as a function strain

Experimental study of shear and tensile properties of LIGA Ni-Fe and Ni-Co alloys at quasi-static and intermediate strain rates

April 1, 2021

Author(s)

Li-Anne Liew, David T. Read, May Martin, Todd R. Christenson, Peter E. Bradley, Nicholas Barbosa, Frank W. DelRio, John T. Geaney, Jeffrey Smyth

We report the in-plane shear properties, to fracture, of 200 um-thick LIGA nanocrystalline Ni- 10%Fe and micrograined Ni-10%Co. Planar simple shear specimens

Coarsening of Solid Particles in Liquid Pb-Sn Alloys: Reinterpretation of Data in Light of the TIDC Theory of Coarsening

April 1, 2021

Author(s)

James Hickman, Yuri Mishin, Vidvuds Ozolins, Alan Ardell

Software

HolograFREE

An electron hologram is a fringe modulated image containing the amplitude and phase information of an electron transparent object. The HolograFREE routines

Tools and Instruments

Instrument scientists Conan Weiland (left) and Nick Quackenbush (right) at the Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (HAXPES).

Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES)

The Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES) end station uses a tunable, focused X-ray beam in the tender spectrum (2.0 keV to 7.5 keV) to probe the depth

Vector Potential Photoelectron Microscope (VPPEM)

The Vector Potential Photoemission Microscope endstation sits at the end of both the SST-I and SST-II beamlines, providing both soft (0.1 keV to 2.2 keV) and

Picture of the sample area of the NIST X-ray Adsorbtion Fine Structure instrument, with NIST scientist Bruce Ravel, located at the National Synchrotron Light Source.

X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS)

The XAFS station uses a tunable, monochromatic, and moderately high energy X-ray beam (4.5 keV to 23.5 keV) for X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements. The

Nanocalorimeter Measurement System

This Nanocalorimeter Measurement System is used for nanocalorimetry measurements at fast heating rates (100 °C/s to 100,000 °C/s) and measurements of samples

Metals

News and Updates

NIST Team Directs and Measures Quantum Drum Duet

Spotlight: Exploring Potential Corrosion in 3D-Printed Titanium

Spotlight: Unique Alloy for the Automotive Industry

Projects and Programs

Integrated Density Functional Theory (DFT) Data and Tools

Theory of Spin-Orbit Torque

Interatomic Potential Data and Simulations

Computational Tools for Materials Design

Publications

The impact of alloying on defect-free nanoparticles exhibiting softer but tougher behavior

Multi-scale analyses of constituent phases in a trip-assisted duplex stainless steel by electron backscatter diffraction, in situ neutron diffraction, and energy selective neutron imaging

Experimental study of shear and tensile properties of LIGA Ni-Fe and Ni-Co alloys at quasi-static and intermediate strain rates

Coarsening of Solid Particles in Liquid Pb-Sn Alloys: Reinterpretation of Data in Light of the TIDC Theory of Coarsening

Software

HolograFREE

Tools and Instruments

Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES)

Vector Potential Photoelectron Microscope (VPPEM)

X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS)

Nanocalorimeter Measurement System

Awards

Dr. Ursula Kattner Honored with 2020 William Hume-Rothery Award

MML Project Leader Enrico Lucon Receives ASTM International Award of Merit

MML Group Leader Frank DelRio Named ASME Fellow

Andrew Slifka and Elizabeth Drexler of MML Awarded 2017 DoC Silver Medal