New Steel Alloy is Both Strong and Ductile

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“For the steel industry, there may now be a way out of a dilemma that has existed ever since people first began processing metal. In a paper in Nature, scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf, Germany, report a new type of metallic material that is both extremely strong and highly ductile. Up to now, one of these material properties could only be improved at the expense of the other, but this new advance could alter that trade-off, leading to the creation of lighter metallic components with thinner walls.”

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