Gummy Metals? Add Glue or Markers
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 18/07/2018

Everyday permanent markers, glue sticks and packing tape may offer a surprisingly low-tech solution to a long-standing nuisance in the manufacturing industry: Making soft and ductile, or so-called "gummy" metals easier to cut.

Purdue University engineers discovered that what makes inks and adhesives effective isn't their chemical content, but their stickiness to the surface of any gummy metal such as nickel, aluminum, stainless steels or copper.   Full Story:  http://bit.ly/gummy-metals

Featured Engineers: 

Srinivasan Chandrasekar, Professor, Industrial Engineering and Materials Engineering, Purdue University

James Mann, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of West Florida (Purdue Alum BSAAE '90, MSAAE '94, PhD IE '10) 

Anirudh Udupa, Postdoctoral Researcher, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Slow Motion Video:  Anirudh Udupa 

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