{"id":135239,"date":"2022-02-04T23:42:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T07:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic"},"modified":"2022-02-04T23:42:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T07:42:31","slug":"mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic","title":{"rendered":"MIT Engineers Create the \u201cImpossible\u201d \u2014 New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The new substance is the result of a feat thought to be impossible: polymerizing a material in two dimensions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities.<\/p>\n<p>The new material is a two-dimensional polymer that self-assembles into sheets, unlike all other polymers, which form one-dimensional, spaghetti-like chains. Until now, scientists had believed it was impossible to induce polymers to form 2D sheets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new substance is the result of a feat thought to be impossible: polymerizing a material in two dimensions. Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities. The new material is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135239","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}