{"id":105281,"date":"2020-04-13T11:44:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/team-designs-carbon-nanostructure-stronger-than-diamonds"},"modified":"2020-04-13T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:44:03","slug":"team-designs-carbon-nanostructure-stronger-than-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/team-designs-carbon-nanostructure-stronger-than-diamonds","title":{"rendered":"Team designs carbon nanostructure stronger than diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-designs-carbon-nanostructure-stronger-than-diamonds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have architecturally designed plate-nanolattices\u2014nanometer-sized carbon structures\u2014that are stronger than diamonds as a ratio of strength to density.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent study in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, the scientists report success in conceptualizing and fabricating the material, which consists of closely connected, closed-cell plates instead of the cylindrical trusses common in such structures over the past few decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrevious beam-based designs, while of great interest, had not been so efficient in terms of mechanical properties,\u201d said corresponding author Jens Bauer, a UCI researcher in mechanical &amp; aerospace engineering. \u201cThis new class of plate-nanolattices that we\u2019ve created is dramatically stronger and stiffer than the best beam-nanolattices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have architecturally designed plate-nanolattices\u2014nanometer-sized carbon structures\u2014that are stronger than diamonds as a ratio of strength to density. In a recent study in Nature Communications, the scientists report success in conceptualizing and fabricating the material, which consists of closely connected, closed-cell plates instead of the cylindrical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}