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14 Apr 2024: A collection of 280 years. Ravindra, Mukesh, Batuk and Harry (Harshad) were all at the Highway Secondary School in Nairobi, back in 1968. We all now live in the U.K. and had our first ever reunion, after some 45 years, in London. Ravindra organised

14 Apr 2024: Adventures of PT Group Members (and others). An elephant made from graphite. An asymmetrical "I-beam". Trading post in New Mexico (not the Dominican Republic), picture courtesy of Noelle Hommedieu. Pieces of steel that Faraday himself conducted

4 May 2024: Paul Shelley visits from Molycop, May 2024 2024. Molycop is an international industry supplying mining consumables. It has laboratories in Australia, Chile and Peru. Dr Paul Shelley sponsors research on steel at Queen Mary University of London, and

4 Jul 2024: Editing your. bashrc file. Go to your home space 'root directory' (type cd). Use your favorite text editor (e.g. type xemacs. bashrc). There should be a line looking like: PATH=$PATH:blabla:. If there is not, just add one. In the case of staroffice,

4 Jul 2024: The analysis is shown to be consistent with (a) a linear dependence of the activation energy for isothermal nucleation, on the transformation free energy change, (b) the sub-unit mechanism of

4 Jul 2024: Download PDF file of paper from HAL open access.

26 Apr 2024: Wilberth Solano in Cambridge, April 2024. Wilberth Solano (PT Group member) visited Cambridge for discussions about a review paper that they have been writing for almost seven years. Here we are having lunch at Darwin College before doing any actual

26 Apr 2024: Kazutoshi Ichikawa and colleagues honoured, April 2024. Ichikawa is on the left. The award (2024) is in recognition of outstanding Science and Technology, by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The award citation is

4 Jul 2024: The graphite flakes, which are rosettes in three dimensions, have a low density and hence compensate for the freezing contraction, thus giving good castings free from porosity.

4 Jul 2024: A single-crystal blade is free from γ/γ grain boundaries. Boundaries are easy diffusion paths and therefore reduce the resistance of the material to creep deformation.