https://it-news.uk/tags/aerospace/ Recent content in Aerospace on IT News Hugo en-us Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/new-tantalum-alloy-doubles-strength-2000c-nature/ Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/new-tantalum-alloy-doubles-strength-2000c-nature/ <p>There aren&rsquo;t many metals that can hold their shape at 2000°C. Most — including the nickel-based superalloys that power jet engines — melt well below that. Only a handful of refractory metals like tungsten, molybdenum, and tantalum even stand a chance. And until now, none of them did it well enough to matter for the most demanding aerospace applications.</p> <p>Researchers at Xi&rsquo;an Jiaotong University&rsquo;s State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Materials just changed that. They&rsquo;ve developed a new boron-oxide dispersion strengthened (B-ODS) tantalum alloy that doubles the tensile yield strength at 2000°C compared to conventional tantalum alloys. The work was published in Nature on Friday.</p>