"Plassteel" process makes Super Elastic and Super Strong Steel: for Knives, too?

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"Plassteel" process makes Super Elastic and Super Strong Steel: for Knives, too?

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Attention Larrin and Doc and others here who are interested in new knife steel: Read this news and tell me if this has possible applications to knife/blade steel?

https://www.asminternational.org/smst/n ... 4294/NEWS/

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/223 ... less-steel

This is interesting, too.
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Inspired by Dune? :D
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Which vendor is willing to make a batch of exclusive PM2s with this treatment? Here's a place in Indiana that does the process: https://www.ibccoatings.com/ion-plasma-nitriding-dhin/
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