{"id":124546,"date":"2021-07-02T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/tougher-than-kevlar-and-steel-ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impacts"},"modified":"2021-07-02T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:22:18","slug":"tougher-than-kevlar-and-steel-ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/tougher-than-kevlar-and-steel-ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impacts","title":{"rendered":"Tougher Than Kevlar and Steel: Ultralight Material Withstands Supersonic Microparticle Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tougher-than-kevlar-and-steel-ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impacts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The new carbon-based material could be a basis for lighter, tougher alternatives to Kevlar and steel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Z\u00fcrich shows that \u201cnanoarchitected\u201d materials \u2014 materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures \u2014 may be a promising route to lightweight armor, protective coatings, blast shields, and other impact-resistant materials.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have fabricated an ultralight material made from nanometer-scale carbon struts that give the material toughness and mechanical robustness. The team tested the material\u2019s resilience by shooting it with microparticles at supersonic speeds, and found that the material, which is thinner than the width of a human hair, prevented the miniature projectiles from tearing through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new carbon-based material could be a basis for lighter, tougher alternatives to Kevlar and steel. A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Z\u00fcrich shows that \u201cnanoarchitected\u201d materials \u2014 materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures \u2014 may be a promising route to lightweight armor, protective coatings, blast shields, and other impact-resistant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124546","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=124546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}