There’s a famous scene in one of the Star Trek movies where Scotty, who has traveled to the past, teaches a metal company to create the transparent aluminum he needs to bring some whales back to ...

Transparent aluminum oxide (TAlOx), a real material despite its sci-fi name, is incredibly hard and resistant to scratches, making it perfect for protective coatings on electronics, optical ...

ZINC and cadmium atoms are known to exhibit good mobility over, and ready re-evaporability from, a suitable substrate surface on which the metal vapour beam is incident. Thus the vapour – beam ...