{"id":106360,"date":"2020-05-01T18:27:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nanoarchitected-metamaterial-with-material-achieves-the-theoretic-limits-of-stiffness-and-strength"},"modified":"2020-05-01T18:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:27:47","slug":"nanoarchitected-metamaterial-with-material-achieves-the-theoretic-limits-of-stiffness-and-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nanoarchitected-metamaterial-with-material-achieves-the-theoretic-limits-of-stiffness-and-strength","title":{"rendered":"Nanoarchitected metamaterial with material achieves the theoretic limits of stiffness and strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoarchitected-metamaterial-with-material-achieves-the-theoretic-limits-of-stiffness-and-strength2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Question: When you\u2019ve designed the world\u2019s most efficient metamaterial, one that could change the way cars, planes and even space exploration vehicles are built, is mostly air yet reaches the theoretical bounds for stiffness and strength and can equally resist forces coming from any direction, what do you do next?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: You break it.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that\u2019s what a team of material scientists including Jonathan Berger of UC Santa Barbara and Jens Bauer of UC Irvine did. Their goal? To learn what boundaries could be pushed with a novel metamaterial called plate-nanolattice. The research findings are published in a paper in the journal Nature Communications (\u201cPlate-nanolattices at the theoretical limit of stiffness and strength\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: When you\u2019ve designed the world\u2019s most efficient metamaterial, one that could change the way cars, planes and even space exploration vehicles are built, is mostly air yet reaches the theoretical bounds for stiffness and strength and can equally resist forces coming from any direction, what do you do next? Answer: You break it. At [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106360","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=106360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}