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21 June 2022

Some modern alloys, such as high-entropy alloys (HEAs), are emerging with greater acceleration due to their wide range of properties and applications. HEAs can be prepared from many metallurgical operations, but mechanical alloying is considered to b...

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71 Citations
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30 August 2025

Aluminium metal matrix composites (AMMCs) incorporate aluminium alloys reinforced with fibres (continuous/discontinuous), whiskers, or particulate. These materials were engineered as advanced solutions for demanding sectors including construction, ae...

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66 Citations
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11 January 2023

Nickel is an important and widely used alloying element in carbon steels. Some of its prominent metallurgical effects in these steels are moderate solid solution strengthening, mild hardenability and, importantly, a strong promotion of toughness, esp...

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35 Citations
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28 July 2022

Additive manufacturing (AM) of metals can be broadly accomplished via two defined technologies: powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition. During AM fabrication, the melted feedstock material experiences fast thermal cycling due to the layer-b...

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31 Citations
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21 March 2024

Residual stress is caused by non–uniform deformation caused by non–uniform force, heat and composition, which is of great significance in engineering applications. It is assumed that the residual stress is always the upper limit of the el...

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Modification of Cantor High Entropy Alloy by the Addition of Mo and Nb: Microstructure Evaluation, Nanoindentation-Based Mechanical Properties, and Sliding Wear Response Assessment

  • Alexandros E. Karantzalis,
  • Anthoula Poulia,
  • Spyros Kamnis,
  • Athanasios Sfikas and ,
  • Anastasios Fotsis and
  • Emmanuel Georgatis
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10 May 2022

The classic Cantor (FeCoCrMnNi) isoatomic high entropy alloy was modified by separate additions of Mo and Nb in an effort to optimize its mechanical properties and sliding wear response. It was found that the introduction of Mo and Nb modified the si...

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Mechanical Properties of Al–Mg–Si Alloys (6xxx Series): A DFT-Based Study

  • Kipkorir Kirui Pius,
  • Nicholas O. Ongwen,
  • Maxwell Mageto,
  • Victor Odari and
  • Francis Magiri Gaitho

13 September 2023

Al–Mg–Si alloys are used in aircraft, train, and car manufacturing industries due to their advantages, which include non-corrosivity, low density, relatively low cost, high thermal and electrical conductivity, formability, and weldability...

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27 February 2023

One of the main challenges encountered in the Laser-based Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) Additive Manufacturing (AM) process is the fabrication of defect-free parts. The presence of defects severely degrades the mechanical performance of AM parts and espe...

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Modeling and Analysis of Corrosion of Aluminium Alloy 6060 Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS)

  • Aikaterini Baxevani,
  • Eleni Lamprou,
  • Azarias Mavropoulos,
  • Fani Stergioudi and ,
  • Nikolaos Michailidis and
  • Ioannis Tsoulfaidis
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29 August 2025

Aluminum is widely used in many industries like automotive, aerospace and construction because of its low weight, good mechanical strength and resistance to corrosion. This resistance comes mainly from a passive oxide layer that forms on its surface....

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Compositional Design of High-Entropy Alloys: Advances in Structural and Hydrogen Storage Materials

  • Shaopeng Wu,
  • Dongxin Wang,
  • Nairan Wang,
  • Xiaobo Ma and ,
  • Zhongxiong Xu,
  • Le Li,
  • Mingda Han and
  • Cheng Zhang
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7 January 2026

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) present a vast compositional design space, characterized by four core effects—high configurational entropy, sluggish diffusion, severe lattice distortion, and the cocktail effect—which collectively underpin thei...

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13 Citations
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19 October 2023

Ultrasonic-assisted Ti6Al4V Directed Energy Deposition (DED) additive manufacturing technology can improve the problem of uneven microstructure caused by laser heating and sudden cooling of the molten pool. In this paper, the numerical analysis and e...

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11 Citations
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15 March 2023

The grain boundaries and dislocations play an important role in understanding the deformation behavior in polycrystalline materials. In this paper, the deformation mechanism of Cu, Ni, and equimolar Cu-Ni alloy was investigated using molecular dynami...

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Cu-Ni-Based Alloys from Nanopowders as Potent Thermoelectric Materials for High-Power Output Applications

  • Mario Wolf,
  • Jan Flormann,
  • Timon Steinhoff,
  • Gregory Gerstein and ,
  • Florian Nürnberger,
  • Hans Jürgen Maier and
  • Armin Feldhoff
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11 January 2022

A new approach for the development of thermoelectric materials, which focuses on a high-power factor instead of a large figure of merit zT, has drawn attention in recent years. In this context, the thermoelectric properties of Cu-Ni-based alloys with...

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10 Citations
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15 April 2024

Transition metal-ruthenium alloys are promising candidates for ultra-high-temperature structural applications. However, the mechanical and electronic characteristics of these alloys are not well understood in the literature. This study uses first-pri...

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9 Citations
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Oxidation of Fe35Mn21Ni20Cr12Al12 High Entropy Alloy in Dry Air

  • Lamiaa Z. Mohamed,
  • Sanaa S. Abd ElMoamen,
  • Seung Jo Yoo and
  • Mohamed Abdel-Hady Gepreel

23 February 2024

The isothermal oxidation of a Fe35Mn21Ni20Cr12Al12 high entropy alloy (HEA) was investigated in dry air for 50 h at 500, 600, and 700 °C after 90% cold rolling. The Fe35Mn21Ni20Cr12Al12 HEA behaves according to the linear oxidation rate with rate...

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Additive Manufacturing of MnAl(C)-Magnets

  • Victor Pacheco,
  • Björn Skårman,
  • Fredrik Olsson,
  • Dennis Karlsson and ,
  • Hilmar Vidarsson and
  • Martin Sahlberg
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15 May 2023

Permanent magnets are becoming more and more relevant for modern society. As the most widely used permanent magnets contain rare-earth elements, the increased dependence on these strategic elements is worrisome, and the pursuit for rare-earth free al...

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Kinetic Model of Isothermal Bainitic Transformation of Low Carbon Steels under Ausforming Conditions

  • Theerawat Kumnorkaew,
  • Junhe Lian,
  • Vitoon Uthaisangsuk and
  • Wolfgang Bleck

13 June 2022

Carbide-free bainitic steels show attractive mechanical properties but are difficult to process because of the sluggish phase transformation kinetics. A macroscopic model based on the classical nucleation theory in conjunction with the modified Koist...

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8 Citations
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11 July 2023

A systematic study of the phase composition of quenched binary titanium alloys with d-metals of groups 5–11 from periods four to six was carried out using the methods of X-ray diffraction analysis. It was found that the formation of the orthorh...

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6 July 2022

Varying contents of carbon, titanium and boron were used in the base steel composition of 0.30 wt% Si, 2.0 wt% Mn, 0.006 wt% S, 0.03 wt% Nb, and 30–35 ppm N. Hot ductility tests were performed with Gleeble-3800, after the steel sample was in-si...

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Processing of Aluminum Alloy 6182 with High Scanning Speed in LPBF by In-Situ Alloying with Zr and Ti Powder

  • Kirstin Riener,
  • Alexander Nagler,
  • Ilse Letofsky-Papst and
  • Gerhard Leichtfried

8 December 2022

The demand for high-strength aluminum alloys for the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) process is still growing. However, to date, the crack susceptibility of conventional alloys as well as the high prices for specially developed alloys are the main obs...

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9 October 2024

This study investigates the corrosion behavior of Grade 23 Ti6Al4V alloys produced through laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) when exposed to simulated body fluid at room temperature, focusing on the role of unmelted particles. This research aims to und...

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7 Citations
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The Activation of Magnesium Sintering by Zinc Addition

  • Serhii Teslia,
  • Mykyta Kovalenko,
  • Mariia Teslia,
  • Mykhailo Vterkovskiy and ,
  • Ievgen Solodkyi,
  • Petro Loboda and
  • Tetiana Soloviova
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6 August 2024

Light alloys based on magnesium are widely used in most areas of science and technology. However, magnesium powder alloys are quite difficult to sinter due to the stable film of oxides that counteracts diffusion. Therefore, finding a method to activa...

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Fretting Corrosion Performance Evaluation of Uncoated Cladding, Cr Coating Cladding and AlCrNbSiTi Coating Cladding

  • Xin Liu,
  • Shen Li,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Menghe Tu and ,
  • Bokai Zhou and
  • Yong Hu
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28 September 2023

In pressurized water reactors (PWRs), flow-induced vibration (FIV) induces the fretting wear of fuel rods and supporting grids, and the process is accompanied by corrosion, which is called fretting corrosion. In this paper, fretting corrosion experim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Alloys for Surface Engineered Coatings, Interfaces and Films)
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Relationship between Microstructure, Mechanical Properties and Creep Behavior of a Cr-Rich Ferritic Stainless Steel Produced by Laser Powder Bed Fusion

  • Dennis Karlsson,
  • Thomas Helander,
  • Eleonora Bettini,
  • Carl-Johan Hassila and ,
  • Johan Cedervall,
  • Martin Sahlberg,
  • Peter Harlin and
  • Ulf Jansson
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5 December 2022

Additive manufacturing (AM) techniques such as laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) are rapidly growing due to the inherent design freedom and possibilities to produce components not available with other techniques. This could be utilized in, e.g., the de...

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25 August 2023

Case-hardening steels are gaining increasing interest in the field of laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB/M) due to their excellent weldability. In combination with post-process carburization heat treatment, the surface properties can be improved to gene...

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20 February 2024

Gold and silver are, for all their chemical similarities, optically very different. Small Ag clusters show a localized surface-plasmon resonance (LSPR), whereas in Au clusters smaller than about 300 atoms, the resonance is absent due to the coupling...

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Oxide Modified Iron in Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion—From Processability to Corrosion Properties

  • Christof J. J. Torrent,
  • Philipp Krooß,
  • Jingyuan Huang,
  • Markus Voigt and ,
  • Christoph Ebbert,
  • Steffen Knust,
  • Guido Grundmeier and
  • Thomas Niendorf
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7 March 2022

Additive manufacturing (AM) processes are not solely used where maximum design freedom meets low lot sizes. Direct microstructure design and topology optimization can be realized concomitantly during processing by adjusting the geometry, the material...

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14 November 2023

A promising approach for producing parts with outstanding properties in directed energy deposition (DED-LB/M) provides the application of tailored powder mixtures processed by applying in situ alloying strategies. In this work, DED-LB/M was used to m...

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17 September 2024

Additive manufacturing is a promising and actively developing method for the synthesis of metal products. The development of techniques for the production of spherical powder particles with specified properties from metals and alloys represents a sig...

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Production of Zirconium-Niobium Alloys for Nuclear Reactors Fuel Rods via SHS Process

  • Anatoly Mukhachev,
  • Dmytro Yelatontsev and
  • Olena Kharytonova

2 August 2023

This article presents the results of studies of the self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) for obtaining zirconium alloys with niobium by the method of calcium-thermal reduction of nuclear-grade zirconium tetrafluoride in the presence of n...

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Performance Improvement of Tin-Based Babbitt Alloy Through Control of Microstructure

  • Zhang Wei,
  • Honglin Shu,
  • Gaixiao Qiao,
  • Qunfeng Zeng and ,
  • Guoping Wang and
  • Qian Jia
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20 June 2025

Babbitt alloys are among the most commonly used materials for sliding bearings. However, with the high speeds and heavy loads of modern machinery, as well as the demands of extreme working conditions, the temperature resistance, strength, and hardnes...

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30 August 2023

The paper is a personal perspective on the design of metallic ultra-high temperature materials (UHTMs). Specifically, the alloy design “landscape” of metallic UHTMs was considered from the viewpoint of the alloy design methodology NICE. T...

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Anomalous Work Hardening Behavior of a Single Crystalline Co-Base Superalloy

  • Andreas Bezold,
  • Nicklas Volz,
  • Fei Xue,
  • Mathias Göken and
  • Steffen Neumeier

29 October 2022

The defect evolution associated with an anomalous work hardening behavior of a single crystalline quaternary Co-Al-W-Ta superalloy at 950 °C was investigated by transmission electron microscopy. As plastic deformation is initially confined to the...

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Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Performance of AA6061-7075 Heterogeneous Composite Fabricated via Additive Friction Stir Deposition

  • Qian Qiao,
  • Hongchang Qian,
  • Zhong Li,
  • Dawei Guo and ,
  • Chi Tat Kwok,
  • Shufei Jiang,
  • Dawei Zhang and
  • Lam Mou Tam
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30 September 2025

An AA6061-7075 composite with a heterogeneous structure was fabricated via the additive friction stir deposition (AFSD) method, and in situ processing data were monitored during the manufacturing process. The results show that the cross-section of th...

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Evolution of Precipitates and Microhardness of L-PBF Inconel 625 Through Relevant Thermal Treatment

  • Tahmina Keya,
  • Ralf D. Fischer,
  • Mohanish Andurkar,
  • Scott M. Thompson and ,
  • Valentina O’Donnell,
  • John Gahl and
  • Barton C. Prorok
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17 December 2024

Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) is a metal additive manufacturing (AM) technique that produces a unique microstructure significantly different from wrought microstructure. Inconel 625 (IN625) is an alloy widely used to manufacture complex parts, but...

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2 September 2024

Abstract: The refractory complex concentrated alloy (RCCA) 5Al–5Cr–5Ge–1Hf–6Mo–33Nb–19Si–20Ti–5Sn–1W (at.%) was studied in the as-cast and heat-treated conditions. The partitioning of solutes in t...

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28 April 2023

The microstructure and mechanical properties of as-homogenized Mg-xLi-3Al-2Zn-0.2Zr alloys (x = 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 wt.%) were studied. As the Li content increased from 5 wt.% to 11 wt.%, the alloy matrix changed from the α-Mg single-phase to &alpha...

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21 September 2022

Titanium alloys are ideal for a great range of engineering applications; however, their high manufacturing costs hinder their widespread use. This study investigates the relationship between the processing and properties of representative Ti-based ma...

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Modelling Microstructure in Casting of Steel via CALPHAD-Based ICME Approach

  • Chunhui Luo,
  • Karin Hansson,
  • Zhili Song,
  • Debbie Ågren and ,
  • Ewa Sjöqvist Persson,
  • Fredrik Cederholm and
  • Changji Xuan
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28 November 2023

Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) is emerging as an increasingly powerful approach to integrate computational materials science tools into a holistic system and address the multiscale modeling challenges in the processing of advan...

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13 December 2022

FeSiCr alloys are used as soft magnetic materials for power multilayer inductors. The alloys are typically annealed at intermediate temperatures in air during inductor fabrication to form an insulating chromium oxide layer around the alloy particles....

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Impact of Niobium Reduction on the Microstructure and Properties of Alloy 625 Weld Overlay Claddings: A Review

  • Reylina Garcia Tayactac,
  • Mark Christian E. Manuel,
  • Jaime P. Honra,
  • Tiago Bohn Kaspary and
  • Raimundo Cabral de Medeiros

2 July 2025

Alloy 625 is a widely utilized nickel-based superalloy known for its excellent mechanical strength and corrosion resistance in aggressive environments. However, its high niobium (Nb) content can lead to the formation of detrimental phases, such as La...

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The increasing restriction of lead in industrial alloys, particularly in copper–zinc-based materials such as CuZn40Pb2, necessitates the development of environmentally safer alternatives. ZnAl15Cu1Mg (ZEP1510), a zinc-based wrought alloy compos...

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Structural and Phase Characteristics of LaNi5-Based Materials Modified with Ti, Mn, and Co

  • Arman Miniyazov,
  • Mazhyn Skakov,
  • Nuriya Mukhamedova,
  • Igor Sokolov and ,
  • Aisara Sabyrtayeva,
  • Ospan Oken,
  • Riza Zhakiya and
  • Zhanna Ospanova
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4 November 2025

In this work, the results of the structural and phase state of LaNi5-based alloys modified with Ti, Mn, and Co elements, obtained by mechanical alloying and subsequent spark plasma sintering, are presented. X-ray diffraction analysis was carried out...

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The Role of Metal Foams for Sustainability and Energy Transition

  • Alessandra Ceci,
  • Girolamo Costanza,
  • Fabio Giudice,
  • Andrea Sili and
  • Maria Elisa Tata

13 August 2025

The global pursuit of a sustainable and decarbonized energy landscape requires the development of novel materials capable of supporting lightweight construction, advanced energy conversion, storage, and thermal management technologies. Among these, m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lightweight Alloys)
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Structural, Mechanical and Corrosion Properties of AZ31 Alloy Produced by Electron-Beam Additive Manufacturing

  • Veronika Utyaganova,
  • Alexey Goncharov,
  • Andrey Sliva,
  • Dmitry Shishkin and ,
  • Boris Zotov,
  • Leonid Fedorenko and
  • Viktor Semin
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 December 2025

A thin-walled product made of AZ31 magnesium alloy was successfully fabricated using wire-feed electron-beam additive manufacturing. The microstructure of the initial wire, used as a precursor, comprises a α-Mg(Al, Zn) solid solution and a mino...

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6 March 2026

Machine learning (ML) is becoming an established part of alloy research, offering new ways to link composition, processing routes, and microstructure with measured properties. In this work, recent studies using ML for predicting or optimizing alloy b...

(This article belongs to the Topic Microstructure and Properties in Metals and Alloys, 3rd Volume)
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7 March 2024

In this work, the refractory complex concentrated alloy (RCCA) 3.5Al–4Cr–6Ge–1Hf–5Mo–36Nb–22Si–1.5Sn–20Ti–1W (at.%) was studied in the as cast and heat treated conditions (100 h or 200 h at 1500 &...

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18 October 2024

Co-Cr-Mo alloy as a human body implant material has a long history, because of its excellent corrosion resistance and biocompatibility, and is widely used in human hip joint materials. Co-Cr-Mo alloy in the human body is often in a passivation state;...

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13 September 2024

The paper presents the results of the study of the processes of self-propagating high-temperature synthesis of Zr-1%B alloy and its refining by electron beam melting. Experiments on the influence of boron’s amorphous and crystalline modificatio...

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