MIT researchers have designed a printable aluminum alloy that’s five times stronger than cast aluminum and holds up at ...

Artificial intelligence has just helped push one of the world’s most familiar metals into unfamiliar territory. By teaming ...

Engineers at MIT have taken a metal that usually trades strength for lightness and pushed it into an entirely new class, ...

Researchers have found special atomic patterns called quasicrystals in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. Quasicrystals increase the strength of 3D-printed aluminum, the researchers discovered, making it ...

Microscope image showing the layered structure of a new 3D-printed aluminum alloy. The wave-like patterns are “melt pools,” traces left by the laser as it melted metal powder layer by layer. The small ...

3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM,) has evolved in leaps and bounds in recent decades to become an exciting emerging manufacturing technology in multiple industries. This article ...

Electron microscope image of the aluminum alloy from the study. The light gray areas are sections of traditional crystals within the aluminum alloy, while the black dots are sections where NIST found ...