(Nanowerk Spotlight) The exquisite microstructures created by nature may hold the answer to a complex synthetic challenge. Recently, our group reported the use of fig leaves to create intricate ...

Researchers have transformed the skeleton of a leaf into iron carbide. The new technique enables the conversion of metal carbides into intricate microstructures in ...

Austenite is a solid and, in general, will be polycrystalline. The formation of ferrite and iron carbide will start at the austenite grain boundaries and the final pearlite microstructure will have ...

Microstructure: The microstructure of a metal refers ... meaningless ratings may still result. For example, cast iron cutting grades of carbide will not hold up when cutting steel because of excessive ...

The results obtained for iron, using multi-scale simulation techniques ... in a material has a direct impact on changes in its microstructure and consequently on its mechanical properties.

The critical cooling rates of iron-carbon alloys and carbon steels ... Tempering led to changes in the microstructure due to the decomposition of spheroidizing cementite carbide and secondary phases, ...

Zhang Tao and Wang Aiqin from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) designed heterogeneous iron carbide catalysts for deoxygenative coupling of ...