Author name: Dr. Harish Patel

Throughout my years in materials research and surface engineering, I’ve often drawn a parallel between alloying and playing a game of chess. Every addition to a melt is a calculated move designed to anticipate and counter the underlying physics of material failure. When we look at silicon, it’s easy to treat it simply as an […]

When we look at the vast landscape of industrial manufacturing, it is easy to focus entirely on the massive smelting furnaces and the dramatic pours of molten metal. But as a materials scientist, I have learned to look past the heat and the spectacle to focus on what is happening at the atomic level. In