Metals may seem tough, but given enough time even plain old air can be their undoing. Oxygen reacts with it to form metal oxides like rust, but now it turns out a metal oxide may come to the rescue.

IT is generally assumed that non-porous oxide films formed on valve metals by anodic oxidation in aqueous electrolytes are normally substantially uniform in thickness and composition. By means of ...

THE formation of boehmite on anodized and non-anodized aluminium surfaces by boiling-water treatment has been discussed by Hart 1. He found by electron diffraction study of ammonium borate anodic ...

“This is the greatest contribution to aluminum metallurgy since the Hall process of 1886—if it is cheap as the inventor says.” So commented the Aluminum Co. of America on a new process for extracting ...

With the unique properties of nanomaterials, such as having a high surface-to-volume ratio and a diverse morphology and structure, they have become a desirable material for different applications.