Dear Fellow Engineers:
Any thoughts or past experience cases coming from your interaction with so called "Open Innovation" sites, like NineSigma, for instance?
The overall legal setup of such sites looks kind of hazy. Apparently they are fishing for ideas, yet there seems to be no transparency...
I am working on zirconia-3%yttria material cutting blades. The problem is that the blades have to be autoclave sterized. Under such conditions they may deteriorate. I am stuck with commercial 3%yttria material.
Is there a way to, say, surface modify the material in order to stabilize it without...