1. Metals in Research and Education

2. 40 000 tonnes of steel 500 m in length Expands during hot days to gain 2dm in height

3. What we teach Minerals, Extraction, Steel-making, Corrosion

4. What we teach

6. What we teach ?

7. What we do not teach.

9. Intermetallics in textbooks Exerpt from a well-used textbook (2:nd ed) in Inorganic Chemistry pp155-156 (1 page out of 800+) ”Intermetallic compounds: In contrast to interstitial solid solutions of metals and nonmetals, where geometrical consideration are consistent with intuition, there is a class of solid solutions formed between two metals that are also better regarded as actual compounds despite the similarity of the electronegativities of the metals. For instance, when some liquid mixtures of metals are cooled, they form phases with definitive structures that are often unrelated to the parent structure. These phases are called intermetallic compounds. They include  -brass (CuZn) and compounds of composition Mg 2 Zn, Cu 3 Au and Na 5 Zn 21 ……….Half a page” In the third edition, nothing is changed but the text is shortened (10 lines) In the forth edition, nothing is changed but the text is expanded (13 lines and an image) It is clearly an uphill battle.

12. Intermetallics is not an optimal term

13. What are intermetallics? Intermetallics are chemical compounds. Experiment: Add sodium to mercury. What happens?

14. Metals as solvents

15. Au as a solvent for Si or In

16. Ni, Fe, Co as solvent for C

17. Zintl phases - NaTl

18. Zintl phases – Na 2 In

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20. + _ e-e- <= Heat e-e- p+p+ Thermoelectricity

21. What’s the use? Scalable, safe, mobile

22. What’s the problem? ZT=T  2 σ/K The thermopower (  ) is proportional to the rate of change of the density of states at the Fermi level. ZT is inversely proportional to the thermal conductivity.

23. Quasicrystals