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rsferntoday at 3:01 AM0 repliesview on HN

This is really cool metallurgy. They start with an alloy and deform it and because of elemental size mismatch they can cause the alloy to self assemble into nanoscale crystals with three different structures

The paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec4995

As an aside, “super alloy” is not the best wording choice on the part of the author of this sciencealert article, superalloys are an established alloy family that follow a different design strategy and have a very different composition profile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superalloy