{"id":163462,"date":"2023-05-06T22:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T03:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/molecular-magic-researchers-develop-lightweight-2d-material-stronger-than-steel"},"modified":"2023-05-06T22:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T03:22:44","slug":"molecular-magic-researchers-develop-lightweight-2d-material-stronger-than-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/molecular-magic-researchers-develop-lightweight-2d-material-stronger-than-steel","title":{"rendered":"Molecular Magic \u2014 Researchers Develop Lightweight 2D Material Stronger Than Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-magic-researchers-develop-lightweight-2d-material-stronger-than-steel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2D materials, which are finer than even the thinnest onionskin paper, have garnered significant attention due to their remarkable mechanical attributes. However, these properties dissapate when the materials are layered, thus restricting their practical applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink of a graphite pencil,\u201d says Teng Li, Keystone Professor at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-maryland\/>University of Maryland\u2019s (UMD)<\/a> Department of Mechanical Engineering. \u201cIts core is made of graphite, and graphite is composed of many layers of graphene.<\/p>\n<p>Graphene is an allotrope of carbon in the form of a single layer of atoms in a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice in which one atom forms each vertex. It is the basic structural element of other allotropes of carbon, including graphite, charcoal, carbon nanotubes, and fullerenes. In proportion to its thickness, it is about 100 times stronger than the strongest steel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2D materials, which are finer than even the thinnest onionskin paper, have garnered significant attention due to their remarkable mechanical attributes. However, these properties dissapate when the materials are layered, thus restricting their practical applications. \u201cThink of a graphite pencil,\u201d says Teng Li, Keystone Professor at the University of Maryland\u2019s (UMD) Department of Mechanical Engineering. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163462","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}