The AI Boom Is Rewriting the Materials Playbook Every AI data center announcement hides a quieter story: someone must make the materials that hold the chips together. Advanced chip packaging, the materials and processes that connect, protect, and cool semiconductors, is one of the fastest-growing corners of the advanced materials [...]
Carbon fiber has a well-known weak point. The fibers themselves are incredibly strong, but the bond between them and the surrounding polymer matrix is comparatively weak, and that's usually where the material fails. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) say they've found a fix, and it could reshape how [...]
Billions in new funding are flowing into advanced materials this year, driven by government efforts to secure critical minerals and rare earth supply chains. But the money is arriving faster than the leadership needed to deploy it. For companies building processing plants and magnet lines, and for the executives who [...]
The United States is betting big on advanced materials. Rare earth elements power everything from F-35 fighter jets to EV motors. Critical minerals underpin the clean energy transition. And D.C. has committed billions to bring these supply chains home. But there's a problem no executive order can fix overnight: the [...]
In the competitive landscape of defense and aerospace, few materials carry greater strategic significance than Mondaloy. Mondaloy is a nickel-based superalloy invented in the 1990s by metallurgists Monica Jacinto, then working at Rocketdyne, and Dallis Hardwick from the Rockwell Science Center. The problem they were solving was not incremental. Prior [...]
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