ڪيئن انسان دھاتن کي ملائي ٿو بنيادي طور تي اڄ به ساڳيو ئي آهي جيئن اهو برونز جي دور ۾ هو: ڪجهه مختلف ڌاتن کي هڪ برتن ۾ ڳنڍيو ۽ انهن کي ملايو جيستائين اهي هڪ نئين، بهتر ڌاتو ٺاهي.
هڪ شروعاتي اسٽيج جي شروعات، فائونڊيشن الائي، هڪ نئين الائينگ ٽيڪنڪ تيار ڪئي آهي جيڪا اجزاء کي پگھلڻ جي بدران انهن کي ماريندو آهي.
“We’re actually smashing metal powder particles together instead of melting them,” Jake Guglin, co-founder and CEO of Foundation Alloy, told TechCrunch. “We can create properties that other people can’t.”
So far, the startup has been selling its bespoke metals in small batches, but Guglin said his company is “constrained by our ability to make stuff, not by the people that want to take it.”
Judging by the types of industries Foundation Alloy is selling into, it seems everyone wants better existing metals or entirely new ones. Guglin said that the startup is running pilots with companies in the automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, and defense industries, along with others that make chef’s knives and luxury watches.
"اسان انهن کي بچائي سگهون ٿا ٽين پئسا ۽ ٽين فضول،" هن چيو.
To scale up production to several tons per week by 2027, Foundation Alloy has raised a $22 million Series A round led by Voyager Ventures, the startup exclusive told TechCrunch. راؤنڊ ۾ پڻ حصو وٺندڙ ٽرسٽ وينچرز، ياماها موٽرز، آمريڪا جي فرنٽيئر فنڊ، اوورليپ هولڊنگس، مواد جي اثر، انجڻ وينچرز، ايل ڪيپ، ۽ ڪنيماتسو ڪارپوريشن، جيڪي پڻ جاپان ۽ ڏکڻ اوڀر ايشيا ۾ شروعاتي ڌاتو کي تقسيم ڪندا.
Foundation Alloy’s technology emerged from scientific research conducted over the last 20 years. Tim Rupert and Chris Schuh led efforts to understand what happened to metals at the nanometer scale, which formed the basis of Foundation Alloy’s technology. Schuh شروع ڪرڻ واري راند لاءِ ڪو اجنبي نه آهي، اڳ ۾ ئي ڊيسڪ ٽاپ ميٽل ۽ Xtalic جو گڏيل بنياد رکيو ويو آهي.
Where nearly all alloys used commercially today are made by melting different metals, Foundation Alloy uses a special type of mill that repeatedly smashes different metal powders together until they become one new metal. By eschewing melting, Guglin said his company’s solid-state process uses around an order of magnitude less energy.
The goal of any alloying process is to create a molecular-scale crystalline structure that blends two or more metallic elements. A perfect alloy would be completely homogeneous — that is, every crystal pattern would be replicated consistently across the entire material.
Traditional alloying does a reasonably good job of achieving this, but it’s not perfect, leaving voids that can reduce the performance of an alloy, making it more brittle or more susceptible to heat. The traditional method also doesn’t work for metals with vastly different melting points, meaning that there have been entire classes of metal alloys with potentially beneficial properties that we haven’t been able to make.
سولڊ اسٽيٽ الائينگ جو عمل فاؤنڊيشن الائي کي مواد ٺاهڻ جي اجازت ڏئي ٿو جيڪو ڪجھ پراڻي واپار کي حل ڪري ٿو. Traditionally, metals are tailored to withstand heat or mechanical stress, since trying to do both usually results in a metal that’s not good at either. Metals used in furnaces tend to be brittle, while stronger ones used in tooling to make things like car parts tend to break down faster when exposed to heat.
But Foundation Alloy has been able to solve that problem, making metals that can take the heat and take a beating. گگلين چيو ته ان جي پهرين پروڊڪٽس مان ڪجهه اوزار سازي جا حصا آهن، گاڏين جي گڏوگڏ ايرو اسپيس ۽ دفاعي ڪمپنيون. دفاع جي اندر، هڪ شروعاتي مارڪيٽ ڊرونز لاء حصا آهي، جتي ڪجهه سپلائي زنجير اصل ۾ F-35 فائٽر جيٽ لاء ٺهيل هئا.
“They think about making 100 perfect parts per year,” Guglin said, whereas drones need more like 10000 per month.
گگلين چيو. Two different chefs might use the same ingredients but produce dishes that taste differently, for better or worse, if they don’t follow the same procedural steps.
“The quality of the output of a dish is not just based on the ingredients, it’s how you cook it” he said. "اسان وٽ پچائڻ جو هڪ نئون طريقو آهي."
