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“I have ordered from Speedy Metals twice now. I live on the west coast and both times my order arrived in 3 days packed nicely and in perfect condition.”

-Kellie

CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT

This month we’re featuring a project by customer David Kohser Jr., who built a vise for his Atlas 7B shaper with bar and plate from Speedy Metals:

DID YOU KNOW…?

…that scientists have invented a new type of “super steel”?

Regular stainless steel is known for being corrosion-resistant, but that resistance has limits. The chromium in stainless steel forms a protective oxide layer under normal conditions, but that layer can undergo further oxidation and degrade in high voltage electrochemical processes.

This means that for applications like electrolysis systems that use desalinated seawater or acidic solutions, titanium components coated with gold or platinum are used instead, making the systems extremely expensive.

But now, researchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed a process that creates a second protective layer on the steel, based on manganese. “Initially, we did not believe it,” says Dr. Kaiping Yu, because normally manganese is thought to inhibit stainless steel’s corrosion resistance. Their discovery “cannot be explained by current knowledge in corrosion science.”

This discovery could reduce the cost of materials for electrolyzers by 40 times.

Learn more in the full article.