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This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives
Key takeaways
- How humans alloy metals is essentially the same today as it was in the Bronze Age: Melt some different metals in a pot and mix them until they form a new, better metal.
- An early stage startup, Foundation Alloy, has developed a new alloying technique that beats the ingredients instead of melting them.
- “We’re actually smashing metal powder particles together instead of melting them,” Jake Guglin, co-founder and CEO of Foundation Alloy, told Tech Crunch. “We can create properties that other people can’t.”
How humans alloy metals is essentially the same today as it was in the Bronze Age: Melt some different metals in a pot and mix them until they form a new, better metal.
An early stage startup, Foundation Alloy, has developed a new alloying technique that beats the ingredients instead of melting them.
“We’re actually smashing metal powder particles together instead of melting them,” Jake Guglin, co-founder and CEO of Foundation Alloy, told Tech Crunch. “We can create properties that other people can’t.”
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