The section highlights the latest achievements in the field of metallurgy, heat treatment of metals and thermal equipment. Fundamental and applied issues of modern metallurgy are considered: research and application of promising structural and functional materials based on rare metals, powder, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant alloys, radiation-resistant alloys. Considerable attention is paid to nanomaterials and nanotechnology in the field of metallurgy and heat treatment.
Also published are review articles by scientists on key problems of modern metallurgy, thematic collections of works carried out by scientific teams of machine-building and metallurgical plants and institutes.
Rare earth elements
Rare-earth elements exhibit great similarity between chemical and some physical properties, which is explained by the almost identical structure of the outer electronic levels of their atoms… Read more
Finding rare earth elements in nature
In addition to cerium, tetravalent compounds form praseodymium and terbium. Divalent compounds are known from samarium, europium and ytterbium and… Read more
Chemical properties of rare earth elements
Scandium, yttrium and lanthanides have a high reactivity… Read more
Mining of rare earth metals
Until the early 1990s, the main producer was the USA (Mountain Pass field). In 1986, 36,500 tons of rare earth metal oxides were produced in the world and… Read more
Application of rare earth metals
The applications of rare earth elements are very diverse. Rare earths play a key role in the production of materials for high-tech consumer sectors, such as electronic and… Read more
Use of rare earth metals by area
Metallurgical applications accounted for about 19% of global demand in 2010, this is due to the fact that rare earth elements increase the quality of stainless and… Read more