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SECOND-HARDEST BULK SUBSTANCE

Second-hardest substance
Grinding wheel surfaces are a possible application for the material.		 Ames Lab researchers Bruce Cook and Alan Russell have discovered that adding small amounts of silicon and other additives to an alloy of aluminium, magnesium and boron creates the second-hardest bulk substance after diamond.  For more information about this discovery, the following material is available:

arrowbullet.gif (140 bytes) News release

arrowbullet.gif (140 bytes) Technical paper (HTML document) on the boride material -- updated 12/10/01
  
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Cheryl Kamman
Licensing Associate
Office of Intellectual Property
& Technical Transfer (OIPTT)
310 Lab of Mechanics
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2131
Tel: 515-294-7707
Fax: 515-294-0778
kamman@iastate.edu

Mr. Todd Zdorkowski,
Technology Commercialization Specialist
151 Applied Science Center
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-3041
Tel: 515-294-6029
Fax: 515-294-9519
toddzd@iastate.edu

Technical questions should be referred to one of the following:

Dr. Bruce Cook
Ames Laboratory
253 Spedding Hall
Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3020
Tel: (515) 294-9673
Fax: (515) 294-9579
cook@ameslab.gov		 Dr. Alan Russell
Ames Laboratory
204 Wilhelm Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-3020
Tel: (515) 294-9225 or
(515) 294-3204
russell@iastate.edu		 Mr. Joel Harringa
Ames Laboratory
252 Spedding Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-3020
Tel: (515) 294-0930
Fax: (515) 294-9579
harringa@ameslab.gov

Media questions should be referred to Kerry Gibson at (515) 294-1405, kgibson@ameslab.gov.

Last revision: 12/10/01 mjg

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