
A philosophy graduate heard two words - stronger metals - and followed them from an MIT classroom to rocket factories and a new way of making alloys. Now Jake Guglin is trying to turn a 7,000-year-old industrial habit into a choice.
A Cambridge startup spun out of MIT skips the furnace entirely - smashing metal powders together instead of melting them - and says the result is a molybdenum alloy three times stronger than what the market sells today.