An intermetallic compound is a compound of specific composition between two metallic species. On a binary phase diagram, regions associated by these compounds are bounded by two phase zones. The range ...

Tohoku University developed a durable steel-aluminum alloy via 3D printing, overcoming brittleness challenges with advanced ...

They discovered that increasing the scan speed of the laser significantly suppresses the formation of brittle intermetallic compounds (such as Al5Fe2 and Al13Fe4). They proposed that this higher ...