Discover how Materion optimizes valuable gold and precious metal cost reduction.
Discover how Materion optimizes the gold spitting process to reduce waste, cost and provide top quality products to manufacturers.
Learn about the two types of solid solution hardening and the way in which each improves material strength.
Discover VISI-LID™ COVERS to provide custom hermetic lids for shielding sensitive light components
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, whose beryllium mirror was proudly produced by Materion, was recently retired, on January 30, 2020. Learn about this mission.
ToughMet 2 alloy offers the low friction of a bearing bronze and the strength of steel with better corrosion resistance than either bronze or steel.
Materion’s optics experts developed processes in photolithography and metallization to support the development of NASA's Europa Clipper space exploration module.
Read about how strength and hardness correlate with one another.
Let’s take a closer look at how UV radiation contributes to killing germs
Read about the factors that affect connector current capacity based on the connector geometry, electrical resistance and maximum allowed temperature rise.
Find out how speed affects the way that materials and environmental forces interact.
Read about the causes, effects, and prevention of stress relaxation.
Learn about evaluating material susceptibility to chloride stress corrosion cracking.
Read about copper beryllium as a material solution in applications requiring nonmagnetic characteristics
Read about the coefficient of thermal expansion and how it affects the alloys and materials you use. in different applications.
Read about instantaneous changes vs. metallurgical changes and how they affect material properties.
