Curated insights and tools for curious minds.

📅 Date: 10/01/2025

Today’s Insights

1. 🎯 Highlight of the Week

• ✨ Title/Resource: Figma for Education
• 💡 Why it matters: Figma and FigJam are free design tools for students and teachers to ideate, create, and share work like professionals.

2. 📚 Key Articles & Insights

• 📖 Microstructure and properties of a novel wear- and corrosion-resistant stainless steel fabricated by laser melting deposition – A novel steel produced through laser melting, containing less nickel than SS316 and carbides, demonstrated enhanced microhardness and wear resistance due to grain refinement and rapid solidification.

Comparison of microhardness and specific wear rate [image reference: **https://rdcu.be/d5Nyr**]

• 📖 Galling categories investigations in stainless steels – Using 3D profilometry, SEM, EBSD, and TEM wear data of stainless steel alloys, three galling categories were identified. It was observed that hcp or martensitic transformations occur, with austenite transforming into Strain-Induced Martensite (SIM) as either pseudo-body-centered (α') or hexagonal close-packed (ε).

Formation after a galling test: (a) ε-martensite at 350 μm depth in Nitronic60 and (b) pseudo-cubic α'-martensite at 550 μm depth in 316L [image reference: t.ly/8ZP6Z]

3. ⚙️ Tools & Resources

• 🔧 Figma Slide Deck: Create visually stunning presentations. The beta version is now available in Figma for Education. Link: http://t.ly/uyerl)
• 🛠️ Notion Free Website Deployment: Build your website effortlessly—just type, and Notion takes care of deployment, domain, and hosting. Link: https://www.notion.com/