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Rapid alloy assessment

Nature volume 410, pages 643–644 (2001)Cite this article

Combinatorial approaches provide a way of swiftly analysing huge numbers of samples. They are now being used to test the structural properties of materials, such as hardness and elasticity.

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Figure 1: Composition profile, phase diagram and hardness profile of nickel–aluminium alloys (after ref. 5).

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