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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

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

14 Jun 2024: Books. Available for Free Download. The following reproduced with the permission of Dr Alan Armour, Climax Molybdenum. ... Restricted Download. Published, 2023. October 8th, 2024.

28 Jun 2024: Steels for rails. W. Solano-Alvarez and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. Transport by rail is an efficient way of moving goods and people while managing problems such as congestion and the consequences on the environment. The relatively low energy

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

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),

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

27 Jun 2024: Tiling and crystallography. The image below is of tiling done by Stoyan Smoukov (who kindly provided the image) at a sink in his house. The tiles have a clever shape so that they can tesselate to fill completely, a two-dimensional surface. Each tile

21 Sep 2023: Visit to China Steel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Harry visited China Steel (September, 2023) to deliver a talk on entitled machine learning - steels - artificial intelligence?, and then have a holiday at the southernmost tip of Taiwan. Professor Jer Ren

17 Jun 2024: Pictures of steel. These photographs courtesy of Jasmine Tong of the Hunan Great Steel Pipe Company Limited, who sent them in an unsolicited email. Steel. More steel. Even more steel. Published, 2023. October 8th, 2024.