Man of Titanium

Titanium is as strong as steel—yet it’s only half the weight. So, using titanium in airplane construction, for example, would reduce fuel consumption and make flying more sustainable. Unfortunately, producing titanium is very expensive. But that is changing: Zhigang Zak Fang, U professor of metallurgical engineering, has found a way to produce high-quality titanium powder relatively inexpensively. Fang developed the hydrogen-assisted metallothermic reduction (HAMR) process, which uses hydrogen..