Qiyang Tan

Nov 20, 2024 | nature.com | Qiyang Tan |Vladimir Luzin |Yu Yin |Xing Cheng |Christopher Hutchinson

AbstractOver the last century, improvement in mechanical performance of structural metals has primarily been achieved by creating more and more complex chemical compositions. Such compositional complexity raises costs, creates supply vulnerability, and complicates recycling. As a relatively new metal processing technique, metal 3D-printing provides a possibility to revisit and simplify alloy compositions, achieving alloy plainification, which enables simpler materials to be used versatilely.