Aluminum should be the perfect lightweight metal for the modern world — abundant, corrosion-resistant, and a third the density of steel. Yet for decades one stubborn adversary has limited its ambitions in powder metallurgy: a nanometers-thin skin of aluminum oxide that coats every powder particle and refuses to yield.
Aluminum should be the perfect lightweight metal for the modern world — abundant, corrosion-resistant, and a third the density of steel.
Yet for decades one stubborn adversary has limited its ambitions in powder metallurgy: a nanometers-thin skin of aluminum oxide that coats every powder particle and refuses to yield.
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Aluminum should be the perfect lightweight metal for the modern world — abundant, corrosion-resistant, and a third the density of steel. Yet for decades one stubborn adversary has limited its ambitions in powder metallurgy: a nanometers-thin skin of aluminum oxide that coats every powder particle and refuses to yield.
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