A vapor chamber includes a wick structure created by an additive selective laser sintering process. The wick structure includes a substrate, a first copper powder layer, a second copper powder layer, and a plurality of additional layers. The first copper powder layer is deposited across the substrate, wherein the first copper powder layer is subsequently selectively fused via a fusing instrument. The second copper powder layer is deposited across the first copper powder layer, wherein the second copper powder layer is subsequently selectively fused via the fusing instrument. Additionally, a plurality of additional copper powder layers are deposited wherein each additional layer is deposited on the previous layer, wherein each of the additional copper powder layers is selectively fused with a predetermined structure.

The present invention provides a metal foam production method that enables a foaming process to be performed at low cost and enables controlling of the shape of metal foam. According to the present invention, a mold that transmits light and a precursor prepared by mixing a metal with a foaming agent are used, and a metal foam is produced by irradiating the precursor with a light transmitted through the mold to thereby heat and foam the precursor so as to obtain a metal foam, while controlling the shape of the metal foam by the mold.

The invention describes a process for the manufacture of a gas diffusion electrode involving preparing a powder mixture containing at least a catalyst and a binder, applying the powder mixture to an electrically conducting support, and pressing the powder mixture with the electrically conducting support.

The invention relates to a sintered metal material comprising at least one magnetic part, characterised by directional through-pores having a size of between 1 and 100 μm, said material having a density varying by less than 20% from one sample of 1 cm3 to another taken from a one-piece part made from the material.

A high quality porous aluminum body, which has excellent joint strength between the porous aluminum body and the aluminum bulk body, and a method of producing the porous aluminum complex, are provided. The porous aluminum complex (10) includes: a porous aluminum body (30) made of aluminum or aluminum alloy; and an aluminum bulk body (20) made of aluminum or aluminum alloy, the porous aluminum body (30) and the aluminum bulk body (20) being joined to each other. The junction (15) between the porous aluminum body (30) and the aluminum bulk body (20) includes a Ti—Al compound. It is preferable that pillar-shaped protrusions (32) projecting toward the outside are formed on outer surfaces of one of or both of the porous aluminum body (30) and the aluminum bulk body (20), and the pillar-shaped protrusions (32) include the junction (15).

Multi-material tooling and methods of making multi-material tooling are provided. The multi-material tooling includes a core formed of a first material having a hardness (Rockwell C scale) of up to 30 HRC, and a shell layer adjacent to the core. The shell layer is formed of a second material having a hardness of 33 HRC to 70 HRC. The method of making multi-material includes depositing a first layer of a first material using an additive manufacturing technique to form a core. The first material that forms the core has a hardness of up to 30 HRC. The method also includes depositing a second layer of a second material to form a shell layer adjacent to the core. The second material that forms the shell layer has a hardness of 33 HRC to 70 HRC.

The application discloses a coating material for fabricating rare earth magnets and a method using the coating material to prepare neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets having high coercive force. The coating material includes: alloy powder A and low-melting-point metal powder B. The alloy powder A is heavy rare earth element R powder, or rare earth-metal alloy (RM) powder, or rare earth-metal-hydrogen alloy (RMH) powder. The heavy rare earth elements are Dy and/or Tb, metal is Fe or Co, or an alloy of Fe and Co, and H is hydrogen element. The low-melting-point metal powder B is one or two of Zn, Al, and Ga. The preparation method includes the following steps: the coating material is mixed into a slurry, and the slurry is coated on the surface of NdFeB magnet, and then apply a two-stage diffusion heat treatment to the magnet, followed by an annealing process to obtain a high-coercivity NdFeB magnet.

The present application can provide a composite material which comprises a metal foam, a polymer component and an electrically conductive filler, has other excellent physical properties such as impact resistance, processability and insulation properties while having excellent thermal conductivity, and is also capable of controlling electrical conductivity characteristics.

Provided is a photosintering composition including: a cuprous oxide particle comprising at least one additive element selected from the group consisting of tin, manganese, vanadium, cerium, iron and silver; a metal particle having a volume resistivity at 20° C. of 1.0×10.sup.−3 ω.Math.cm or less; and a solvent.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a heterogeneous composite material thin plate, and a heterogeneous composite material thin plate manufactured thereby, the method comprising the steps of: (a) manufacturing a composite powder by ball milling an aluminum or aluminum alloy powder and a carbon nanotube powder; (b) manufacturing a multilayer billet comprising the composite powder, and comprising a core layer and two or more shell layers that encompass the core layer, the core layer being formed of the composite powder or an aluminum alloy, the shell layers excluding the outermost shell layer and being formed of the composite powder, and the outermost shell layer being formed of (i) an aluminum or aluminum alloy powder or (ii) the composite powder; (c) manufacturing an extruded material by extruding the multilayer billet; and (d) rolling the extruded material to mold same into a thin plate shape.