CastQC project is funded by the EIT Raw Materials Innovation Community. A partnership of 6 industrial and academic partners, led by Iskra ISD will in the course of the 2 year project:
Develop and test a novel QC Alloy with the goal to produce an Aluminium alloy with up to 30% weight reduction;
Aim to develop the technician know how that will reduce CO2 emissions up to 20%, over the whole aluminium production chain;
Engage a broad audience of industry and academic specialist in order to validate and promote the QC Alloy. Leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of tomorrow.
Quasicrystalline alloy
It is well known that transport is responsible for more than a quarter of total greenhouse gas emissions in the EU and remains the only sector in Europe where CO2 emissions are not decreasing. With the novel high-strength aluminium alloys can directly and effectively contribute to cleaner mobility by making vehicles lighter and thus more efficient.
The main difference in comparison to conventional aluminium alloys is that our solution use completely different strengthening mechanism to improve the mechanical and chemical properties of aluminium alloys. Those mechanism is based on the metastable solidification of the aluminium-based melt to obtain high symmetry quasicrystalline phases instead of crystalline ones. High symmetry contributes to better connection with the aluminium matrix and that results in higher mechanical properties.
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