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Welding Breakthrough Could Transform Manufacturing

posted by mrpg on Tuesday March 05 2019, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the every-day-a-new-discovery dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Phys.org:

Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have welded glass and metal together using an ultrafast laser system, in a breakthrough for the manufacturing industry.

Various optical materials such as quartz, borosilicate glass and even sapphire were all successfully welded to metals like aluminium, titanium and stainless steel using the Heriot-Watt laser system, which provides very short, picosecond pulses of infrared light in tracks along the materials to fuse them together.

The new process could transform the manufacturing sector and have direct applications in the aerospace, defence, optical technology and even healthcare fields.

Now that iPhone will be welded shut.

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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday March 05 2019, @02:37AM (9 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday March 05 2019, @02:37AM (#810107)

    Buying something at $localStore, and getting it out of it's packaging without requiring a hospital visit.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by RandomFactor on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:46AM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:46AM (#810121) Journal

    This is not entirely a hypothetical...

    Around six thousand people a year wind up in emergency rooms with lacerations and puncture wounds caused by clamshell/oyster packaging. Some injuries are caused by the jagged edges of half-opened, hard-plastic wrappers. Others occur when the a frustrated consumers use tools such as knives, scissors or wire cutters.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:48AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:48AM (#810124)

    Don't you use scissors to cut around the edges of the heavy-duty blister packaging? If I want to reuse the package (hanging storage for the gizmo inside), I might cut two sides and a little more, then pry the contents out.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday March 05 2019, @06:54AM (6 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 05 2019, @06:54AM (#810158) Journal

      Don't you use scissors to cut around the edges of the heavy-duty blister packaging?

      Depends on how frustrated I am - in extreme, I might end using a jackhammer on that damn'd fucking bloody packaging, why the fuck can't they use a nomral carborad box, fickung IDIOTS!!!1!11one!!

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      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 05 2019, @07:22AM (5 children)

        by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday March 05 2019, @07:22AM (#810165)

        They sell a special tool for you, which easily opens any blister.
        Wanna guess what it comes packaged in ?

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 05 2019, @07:32AM (3 children)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 05 2019, @07:32AM (#810166) Journal

          They sell a special tool for you, which easily opens any blister.

          Pictures or it didn't happen.
          (hope you don't mean any pills blister)

          Wanna guess what it comes packaged in ?

          (I already dread the answer - grin)

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        • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday March 06 2019, @03:39AM

          by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday March 06 2019, @03:39AM (#810559)

          My vote's for a solid block of Lucite.