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14 Apr 2024: Professor Haibin Zuo visits from USTB. Professor ZUO Haibin, Associate Director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, visited us (Haixue Yan and Harry) at Queen Mary University of

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

14 Apr 2024: Trinity College, Cambridge, Science Society 2024. The Trinity College Science Society is run by undergraduate students, who invited Harry to give an evening lecture before dinner. The lectures are open to the public. Pictures courtesy of Deepak

11 Sep 2023: Pearlite. Articles. Strength of undeformed pearlite, orPearlitic wire. Phases. Computer Programs. Bridges using Pearlitic Ropes. Sculptre made of endless pearlitic steel rope. Sculptre made of pearlitic steel rope, University of Manchester. Bridge

11 Feb 2024: Harry at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, February 2024. Harry was at KTH Royal Institute of Technology as the "opponent" to Tania Loiza Uribe's well-defended Ph.D. thesis. Pictures courtesy of Steve Ooi. It snowed with temperatures close to -5 centigrade.

23 Jan 2024: Steels, the 5th edition, published 2024. Alloys of iron. Alloys of iron. Alloys of iron. Alloys of iron. Alloys of iron. Corten steel used by Anthony Gormley, an artist, to create a monument honouring Alan Turing, at King's College Cambridge.

23 Feb 2024: Harry, Steve and Bill at Udine University, Italy, February 2024. Harry Bhadeshia, Steve Ooi and Bill Clyne were at the Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy, at the kind invitation of Professor Fabio Miani. We arrived late, about 2200 h. Heading

26 Oct 2023: α-alumina (Sapphire). D. K. Dinkar and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Crystallography of α-alumina, which in its pure and perfect form is known as sapphire. Space group, lattice parameters. Unit cell in perspective view. The cell has the trigonal space

20 Sep 2023: Sites in Taipei, Taiwan, double-helix building, September 2023. These pictures are from Harry's visit to Taiwan, generously organised by Professor Jer Ren Yang of the National Taiwan University. Harry's flight from Heathrow. Completely random pattern

18 Aug 2023: Visitors from Sichuan University. Professor Jiangang Wu and Dr Ting Zheng from Sichuan University visited Harry at Queen Mary University of London. They work on ferroelectrics and phase transformations. During the visit, they had the opportunity to

25 May 2023: Interesting pictures. Steel tins of tomatoes. Work of art at Cambridge railway station. Suspended in the stairwell from cycle park to station entrance. Notice the breaking system. Elevated computer to work while standing. Azaleas in bloom.

14 Jul 2023: Visitors from Nippon Steel and Daido Steel, Japan. On Monday morning (10th Jul), Kevin Knowles and Harry recorded a video about iron crystals from the Moon. This was followed by the arrival of Chihiro Furusho from Daido Steel in Japan. Chihiro had

25 May 2023: Future Metallurgy Conference. The conference was organised by Professor Zhongyun Fan to celebrate and important anniversary of his Liquid Metal Engineering Centre, at Brunel University. The conference dinner. Speeches emphasising the impressive

25 May 2023: Dr Haixue Yan and Professor Elizabeth Tanner of QMUL attend a Darwin Lecture. The lecture they attended was by Arik Kershenbaum on "Are we alone in the Universe". The full set of lectures is available onLiz Tanner with the Master of Ceremonies, Tim

25 May 2023: Visit to Imperial College, London. Professor Jianguo Lin invited Harry to visit his laboratories at Imperial College. Situated in a lovely part of London. Shows the huge scale of the fan blades on a civil aircraft engine. Lunch at the Polish club,

13 Sep 2023: Harry at the National Taiwan University (September 2023). Commercially viable strong steel with austenite grain size less than 0.4 μm. It is assumed that high-carbon martensite is strong but brittle. We teach therefore, that it must be somewhat

10 Sep 2023: Atomium. Atomium is designed by AndrX Waterkeyn - each ball in the body-centred cubic arrangement is about 18 m in size. The "bonds" are made of steel. The whole structure is more than 100 m tall. The crystal structure is supposed to represent iron

18 Aug 2023: Harry's induction at Indian National Science Academy. Harry was elected a Fellow in 2018 but the opportunity for a formal induction into INSA arose during a visit to New Dehli. From left to right, Professor Ashutosh Sharma (President of INSA),