Metallurgy

Copper reflects most near-infrared laser light and conducts absorbed heat away faster than almost any other engineering metal. GRCop-42's move into commercial powder catalogs shows how feedstock morphology, oxide content, and particle size distribution are being engineered around that problem rather than worked around it.

Cold spray coatings form only when particles clear a critical impact velocity, a threshold set by material properties, particle size and morphology, and native oxide condition. This article looks at what powder-side QC can flag before a spray trial, and where it stops short of predicting deposition efficiency.

Powder spreading in powder bed fusion is a recoater-powder interaction shaped by cohesion, particle size distribution, and particle shape. This article maps streaking, short-feeding, and layer non-uniformity back to their underlying mechanisms and separates powder-driven causes from blade wear and spreading speed.

As aerospace metal additive manufacturing capacity expands, more reused powder is going back into qualified builds. The virgin-to-reused blend ratio decision depends on PSD shift, satellite formation, and morphology drift, and cannot be settled by a single powder check disconnected from the part's stress state.

Sintered contacts, additive manufactured heat exchangers, EV motor components, and conductive pastes each require a different copper powder. This article explains why morphology, particle size distribution, oxygen content, and packing density are engineering variables, and how to specify them correctly for electrification applications.

Sustainable powder metallurgy depends on controlled powder loops, not on powder processing [...]

Metal powder feedstock quality has a direct effect on print stability and [...]

Biodegradable magnesium alloy powders are gaining attention in orthopedics because they offer [...]

Rare earth powders now sit in the control loop of modern technology. [...]

Core-shell and coated powders let you engineer surface chemistry, improve handling stability, [...]

Smart powder processing in additive manufacturing links engineered powders, real-time sensor data, [...]

The relevance of powder testing for circular economy powder usage. Circular production [...]