{"id":108685,"date":"2020-06-14T21:05:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T04:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nano-sized-diamond-thread-may-be-a-super-strong-wonder-material"},"modified":"2020-06-14T21:05:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T04:05:28","slug":"nano-sized-diamond-thread-may-be-a-super-strong-wonder-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nano-sized-diamond-thread-may-be-a-super-strong-wonder-material","title":{"rendered":"Nano-sized diamond thread may be a super-strong wonder material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nano-sized-diamond-thread-may-be-a-super-strong-wonder-material2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Move over, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/11\/16\/graphene-thermal-infrared-imaging\/\">graphene<\/a> \u2014 you\u2019re not the only miracle material in town. Australian researchers have <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1511.01583\" target=\"_blank\">discovered<\/a> that diamond nanothreads (one-dimensional diamond crystals capped with hydrogen) could be extremely strong. While scientists thought they were brittle when announced just a month ago, it turns out that they become supremely flexible (and thus durable) when you introduce the right kinds of defects. You could create nanoscopic structures that are just as strong as you need them to be, with a \u2018perfect\u2019 mix of bendy and rigid shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 Move over, graphene \u2014 you\u2019re not the only miracle material in town. Australian researchers have discovered that diamond nanothreads (one-dimensional diamond crystals capped with hydrogen) could be extremely strong. While scientists thought they were brittle when announced just a month ago, it turns out that they become supremely flexible (and thus durable) when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108685","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}