Rhode Island Patent of the Month – March 2021

Metal 3D printing provides a way to rapidly produce complex parts in less time than classic manufacturing. Many of these methods use a solid-liquid-solid phase transformation.This method is limited to a few materials as many materials have a tendency to crack in the heat treatment. The Nanosteel Company, Inc, is developing a new method which produces stronger products using specific metal alloy compositions. 

NanoSteel is an advanced materials company specializing in steels designed with their nano-scale microstructures. Their method uses a layer-by-layer construction of a metallic part. These alloys can be made using an iron, chromium, or molybdenum base. Melting the alloy down to a molten state, the metal can be formed into a multilayered form of the desired product. Each layer, once solid, is between 2-200 microns. For reference, the average human hair strand is 70 microns wide. This layered method increases the printed products tensile strength and hardness which reduces cracking after heat treatments. 

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