Researchers develop technique for enhanced reversibility of a phase-transforming material
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 08:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers at Minnesota State University has created a martensitic metal alloy that degrades very little after application of more than 16,000 thermal cycles. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they applied mathematical theory to a zinc-gold-copper alloy and found it markedly improved the alloy's ability to withstand degradation due to multiple heating-cooling cycles.