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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

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),

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.

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

19 Aug 2023: Broken tensile-test samples. Flat tensile test samples from a steel for composition Fe-0.07C-0.025Nb-0.025Ti wt%, rolled and coiled at 629. o. C. Images courtesy of Apparao Chinta. Geometry before deformation. The samples are 7 mm thick.

15 Apr 2024: Mitigating high-temperature, high-pressure hydrogen attack. Ph.D. thesis, by Mohammed Abdulrahman Alshahrani, University of Cambridge, 2021. Role of toughness in abrasion and impact-abrasion wear. Ph.D. thesis, by Appa Rao Chintha, University of

11 Sep 2023: Pearlite in art, The Chrysalis. The term "chrysalis" describes a hard case that protects a stage of growth in which a butterfly turns into an adult. It eventually breaks to allow the butterfly to emerge. Here, Kang Muxiang has used discarded