Extrusion, which can produce complex parts made of lightweight metals, is an increasingly important manufacturing process for everything from buildings to electric vehicles. Pacific Northwest National ...

PNNL’s ShAPE extrusion process produced this 7.5 mm diameter tube with a 0.75 mm wall thickness from flakes of a magnesium alloy. Magnesium, the lightest of all structural metals, has a lot going for ...

Keerti Kappagantula, a materials scientist at PNNL, is part of a team working to fabricate copper and aluminum wires that are more conductive than regular copper for use in the transportation industry ...