Researchers are developing uniform nanostructured bulk materials through self-assembling solid state transformations. Single phase supersaturated solid solutions are processed into single phase or multiphase composite nanostructures through spinoidal decomposition, eutectoid transformation, and glass devitrification. Researchers have extensive expertise in alloy design and processing using melt-spinning and gas atomization to produce rapidly solidified alloys. These nanostructured materials exhibit dramatically improved mechanical properties such as strength and hardness in steels, and magnetic properties such as coercivity and remanence in rare earth transition metal magnets. INL’s achievements in developing magnetic materials were recognized by the Department of Energy's Basic Energy Sciences department in 1996, and R&D Magazine with an R&D 100 award in 1997.
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