June 2005 Features

Dry holes call for diamond drills without coolant
German researchers are developing drills that don’t need fluids to work

Less carbide means fewer cracks in tools
As gas-atomised steels get cleaner, small impurities are targets

Copper nanocomposites are kings of conductivity
Small particles make good contacts in the electrical and thremal fields. Sintering a path to cost-effective hardened parts. Advances in furnaces and sintering techniques have produced results