{"id":153018,"date":"2022-12-17T09:24:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-find-material-with-highest-toughness-ever-recorded"},"modified":"2022-12-17T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:24:33","slug":"scientists-find-material-with-highest-toughness-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-find-material-with-highest-toughness-ever-recorded","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find material with highest toughness ever recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-material-with-highest-toughness-ever-recorded.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe toughness of this material near liquid helium temperatures (20 kelvin, &minus;253\u00b0C) is as high as 500 megapascals square root metres,\u201d said Robert Ritchie, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley and study co-author. \u201cIn the same units, the toughness of a piece of silicon is one, the aluminium airframe in passenger airplanes is about 35, and the toughness of some of the best steels is around 100. So, 500, it\u2019s a staggering number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s new findings, alongside other recent work on HEAs, may force the materials science community to reconsider long-held notions about how physical characteristics give rise to performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amusing, because metallurgists say that the structure of a material defines its properties, but the structure of the CrCoNi is the simplest you can imagine \u2013 it\u2019s just grains,\u201d explained Ritchie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe toughness of this material near liquid helium temperatures (20 kelvin, \u2212253\u00b0C) is as high as 500 megapascals square root metres,\u201d said Robert Ritchie, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley and study co-author. \u201cIn the same units, the toughness of a piece of silicon is one, the aluminium airframe in passenger airplanes is about 35, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153018","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\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}