Chemical & Engineering News
“The pièce de résistance of the QQC technology, Roy said in his talk, is a fluid-injector nozzle made of iron-silicon alloy that was transformed in three ways: The laser treatment deposited a TiC cladding, converted the top layer of the alloy underneath (down to several tens of micrometers) into an amorphous metal – all without any signs of melting or changes in the object’s dimensions. This is a ‘staggering’ transformation, Roy pointed out…”