History
The FFC Cambridge process was developed by George Z. Chen, Derek J. Fray and Tom W. Farthing between 1996 and 1997 in the University of Cambridge. (The name FFC derives from the first letters of their last names.) They reduced oxide scales on titanium foils, as well as small pellets of titanium dioxide powder, to the metal by molten salt electrochemistry. The technology has since been commercialised in the form of an intellectual property company known as Metalysis, which is based in Sheffield, UK. A similar process was patented in 1904 as German patent 150557.
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