New Nano-Manufacturing Makes Steel 10 Times Stronger

The Seattle-based Startup has developed a process called Modumetal that can increase the strength of metals like steel ten times, and will make it more resistant to corrosion. The process is really inexpensive and if the modified metal can pass field testing, it will find it uses in many applications like building bridges and other infrastructure last longer, and making light weight and fuel efficient cars and plane.
The company has been in collaboration with oil companies like Chevron, Conoco-Philips, and Hess. The parts has been tested in some oil fields. Hydrogen Sulphide, found in some Oil is very corrosive and damage production equipment, but with the help of this new technology those parts may last longer and thus will reduce the cost of oiling.
Modumetal is based on the fact of controlling the materials at a nanoscale that can change the properties of a materials. CEO Christina Lomasney has said that hte process costs same as that for a galvanization.
It is just a advanced form of electroplating. In this a bath is used that contain more than one type of metal ion and controls the way how ions are deposited by changing the electrical current. By changing the current at the precise moment, it creates a different layers,with each layers having thickness to certain nanometers of different composition, Thus these changes the properties of materials as final layers is certain centimeters thick.

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