Earlier in this series, we made the case for copper being “the metal that built technology.” Some readers took issue with that statement, noting correctly that meteoric iron and gold were worked long ...

Is there any element that calls to mind the notion of strength quite like titanium? Named after the Titans, Greek gods of myth, the 22nd element on the Periodic Table appears in airliners and lacrosse ...

Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, yet products based on pure titanium are uncommon because it's expensive to remove the oxygen from titanium ore. Reducing costs would ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) have been selected by ARPA-E, the US government's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, to carry out a one year project aimed at developing ...

Metal 3D printing has long promised aerospace-grade parts at desktop scale, but titanium has stubbornly resisted that vision. A new approach called cold metal fusion is changing that equation, turning ...

Delivering Titanium with Better Than Wrought Elongation and Tensile Strength Exceeding Industry Standards, Desktop Metal Is the First Company to Commercialize Titanium for Bound Metal Production of ...

As strong as steel and half the weight titanium is a metal which has never achieved its potential because it is at least 10-times the price. But that might be about to change with the dawning of the ...

Laichang Zhang receives funding from Australian Research Council through Discovery Projects. To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements we’re taking a look at how ...