Newsletter | Vol 4 - April 2016
Focus on Data
Technical data can be expensive and difficult to obtain-€”collecting it, organizing it, analyzing it. Any time you have something someone else doesn't have, you need to retain that advantage and put it to work.
A fracture surface of a magnesium matrix composite reinforced with titanium aluminum carbide, Ti2AlC, a layered ternary carbine MAX phase. The dragon is a kinked Ti2AlC and the surrounding, including the fire, is the Mg matrix.
Image credit: Babak Anasori and Michel W. Barsoum, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA 19104 USA (used with permission of the authors)
Technical data can be expensive and difficult to obtain-€”collecting it, organizing it, analyzing it. Any time you have something someone else doesn't have, you need to retain that advantage and put it to work.