The glass-forming ability (GFA) is a measure of the easiness of vitrification of a liquid during cooling from the liquidus temperature. The GFA is inversely proportional to the critical cooling rate (Rc), whose determination ...

Clean energies have become a growing quest for sustainable development. Within this context, solar energy stands out, which is renewable, practically inexhaustible and clean. The solar cell is the main instrument that ...

Hydrogen is a promising energy carrier that allows the use of energy in a sustainable form. However, safe and efficient hydrogen storage is a scientific and technological challenge that still has to be overcome. Recently ...

The precipitation of quasicrystalline phase in an α-Al dendritic matrix provides Al-based alloys with high mechanical and wear resistance, mainly at high temperatures, which are promising for applications as automotive and ...

Macroporous thermal insulators have recently emerged industrial interest due to their low thermal conductivity and toxicity compared to fiber-based insulators. Nonetheless, some challenges need to be overcome to enable a ...

As life expectancy increases worldwide, there is an increased need for orthopedic procedures to repair bone defects resulting from trauma. In this context, new surgical procedures and bone repair materials, such as scaffolds ...

Since the 90s, the petroleum industry has been conducting research on alloys that are wear and corrosion resistant once several equipment parts used in the oil exploitation, extraction and production, such as pipes, joints, ...

Supermartensitic stainless steels were developed during the 1990s as an alternative to duplex stainless steels for manufacture of oil country tubular goods. As a result of microstructural variations caused during tempering ...

For thousands of years, nature has accumulated countless possibilities for optimized solutions to engineering problems using limited raw material, room temperature, aqueous solutions, solar energy and renewable resources. ...

Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is an additive manufacturing technique that consists of a layer-by-layer fusion of a powder bed by scanning a laser enabling the production of full density parts accordingly to a 3D CAD model ...