4 ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2023 ASM International 9639 Kinsman Road, Materials Park, OH 44073 Tel: 440.338.5151 • Fax: 440.338.4634 Joanne Miller, Editor joanne.miller@asminternational.org Victoria Burt, Managing Editor vicki.burt@asminternational.org Frances Richards and Corinne Richards Contributing Editors Anne Vidmar, Layout and Design Allison Freeman, Production Manager allie.freeman@asminternational.org Press Release Editor magazines@asminternational.org EDITORIAL COMMITTEE John Shingledecker, Chair, EPRI Beth Armstrong, Vice Chair, Oak Ridge National Lab Adam Farrow, Past Chair, Los Alamos National Lab Rajan Bhambroo, Tenneco Inc. Daniel Grice, Materials Evaluation & Engineering Surojit Gupta, University of North Dakota Michael Hoerner, KnightHawk Engineering Hideyuki Kanematsu, Suzuka National College of Technology Ibrahim Karaman, Texas A&M University Ricardo Komai, Tesla Bhargavi Mummareddy, Dimensional Energy Scott Olig, U.S. Naval Research Lab Christian Paglia, SUPSI Institute of Materials and Construction Amit Pandey, Lockheed Martin Space Satyam Sahay, John Deere Technology Center India Kumar Sridharan, University of Wisconsin Jean-Paul Vega, Siemens Energy Vasisht Venkatesh, Pratt & Whitney ASM BOARD OF TRUSTEES Pradeep Goyal, President and Chair Navin Manjooran, Senior Vice President Elizabeth Ho man, Vice President David B. Williams, Immediate Past President Lawrence Somrack, Treasurer Amber Black Ann Bolcavage Pierpaolo Carlone Hanchen Huang André McDonald Christopher J. Misorski U. Kamachi Mudali James E. Saal Dehua Yang Sandra W. Robert, Executive Director STUDENT BOARD MEMBERS Kingsley Amatanweze, Karthikeyan Hariharan, Denise Torres Individual readers of Advanced Materials & Processes may, without charge, make single copies of pages therefrom for personal or archival use, or may freely make such copies in such numbers as are deemed useful for educational or research purposes and are not for sale or resale. Permission is granted to cite or quote from articles herein, provided customary acknowledgment of the authors and source is made. The acceptance and publication of manuscripts in Advanced Materials & Processes does not imply that the reviewers, editors, or publisher accept, approve, or endorse the data, opinions, and conclusions of the authors. FLUSH WITH OPPORTUNITY Technological advancements don’t come easy. But breakthroughs do tend to build upon each other. In the early 1980s, two men on different continents independently yet simultaneously developed a rare earth magnet from neodymium. Their unique story is chronicled in this issue and recently earned them the Honda Prize, 40 years after their invention. Building off that early research, next-gen magnets for use in electric vehicles, wind turbines, and computers are now being developed by Niron Magnetics, with less mining, extraction, and manufacturing costs than what is required for rare earth magnets. In her keynote at the recent IMAT 2023 event in Detroit, Evelyn Wang of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) cited Niron’s clean earth magnet as one example of a technology the agency currently supports. Her talk on “How Materials Innovations Can Enable Transformative Energy Solutions” discussed the goal of getting to net zero emissions by 2050. According to Wang, with challenges come opportunities. There are mountains of opportunities for transforming the energy landscape. Her strategy is to look for technological white spaces—areas with little development that provide the greatest opportunities for expansion. Seeing challenges as opportunities was also the mantra of Dave Furrer, FASM, as he moderated IMAT’s Advanced Manufacturing panel session, which is summarized in this issue. The multidisciplinary Affiliate Society panel offered a wide range of perspectives as speakers represented Blue Origin, IBM, NASA, and several universities. Each panelist shared insights on the impact of new materials and manufacturing technologies in their respective fields. NASA also provided a keynote speaker this year. Bryan McEnerney discussed “The Challenges of Insertion of Advanced Materials & Processes for Spaceflight.” For space missions, just because a material has been tested does not mean the process is ready. There needs to be a complementary material and manufacturing readiness level. A material does not exist in a vacuum; it must integrate into subsystems. As if developing parts for space isn’t difficult enough. In his Edward DeMille Campbell lecture, Rusty Gray, FASM, talked about the challenges of developing alloys for new processes like additive manufacturing (AM) and said we must be “process aware.” Process and structure are closely linked to properties and performance. The AM process creates different properties and machine uniformity can be challenging. America Makes, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing among others are all working on qualification and certification of AM parts. It’s one step toward building a roadmap for AM. How do we get to the next technological breakthroughs? The combined wisdom of the keynote and special lecturers at this year’s IMAT indicates that we need partnerships, collaborations, multidisciplinary discussions, readiness guidelines, qualification standards, and roadmap committees. We need to be inquisitive and work in the “white spaces.” But mostly we need to see challenges in a new way. In their view, the world—and space—appear to be flush with opportunities. joanne.miller@asminternational.org ARPA-E’s Evelyn Wang gives keynote at IMAT.
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