{"id":124923,"date":"2021-07-14T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impacts"},"modified":"2021-07-14T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T07:21:00","slug":"ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impacts","title":{"rendered":"Ultralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impacts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Z\u00fcrich shows that \u201cnanoarchitected\u201d materials\u2014materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures\u2014may 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/supersonic+speeds\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">supersonic speeds<\/a>, 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<p>The researchers calculate that compared with steel, Kevlar, aluminum, and other impact-resistant <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a> of comparable weight, the new material is more efficient at absorbing impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Z\u00fcrich shows that \u201cnanoarchitected\u201d materials\u2014materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures\u2014may be a promising route to lightweight armor, protective coatings, blast shields, and other impact-resistant materials. The researchers have fabricated an ultralight material made from nanometer-scale carbon struts that give the material toughness and mechanical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124923","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}