{"id":17689,"date":"2015-09-22T03:48:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T10:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/scientists-figure-out-how-to-make-flexible-materials-3-times-stronger-than-steel"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:14:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:14:01","slug":"scientists-figure-out-how-to-make-flexible-materials-3-times-stronger-than-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/scientists-figure-out-how-to-make-flexible-materials-3-times-stronger-than-steel","title":{"rendered":"Scientists figure out how to make flexible materials 3 times stronger than steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bd370rlvT5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Australian scientists have published an \u2018instruction manual\u2019 that makes it a whole lot easier and cheaper to create <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amorphous_metal#History\">metallic glass<\/a> \u2014 a type of flexible but ultra-tough alloy that\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.unsw.edu.au\/news\/invention-futuristic-alloys-three-times-stronger-steel\">described as<\/a> \u201cthe most significant materials science innovation since plastic\u201d. The material is similar to the sci-fi liquid-type metal used to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T-1000\">T-1000 in<\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T-1000\">Terminator 2<\/a> <\/em>- when it\u2019s heated it\u2019s as malleable as chewing gum, but when it cools it\u2019s three times stronger than steel.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have been dabbling with the creation of metallic glass \u2014 or amorphous metal \u2014 for decades, and have made a range of different types by mixing metals such as magnesium, palladium, or copper \u2014 but only after an expensive and lengthy process of trial and error. Now, for the first time, Australian scientists have created a model of the atomic structure of metallic glass, and it will allow scientists to quickly and easily predict which metal combinations can form the unique material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil now, discovering alloy compositions that form these materials has required a lengthy process of trial and error in the laboratory,\u201d lead researcher Kevin Laws from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.unsw.edu.au\/news\/invention-futuristic-alloys-three-times-stronger-steel\">said in a press release.<\/a> \u201cWith our new instruction manual we can start to create many new useful metallic glass-types and begin to understand the atomic fundamentals behind their exceptional properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-worked-out-how-to-create-a-material-three-times-stronger-than-steel\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian scientists have published an \u2018instruction manual\u2019 that makes it a whole lot easier and cheaper to create metallic glass \u2014 a type of flexible but ultra-tough alloy that\u2019s been described as \u201cthe most significant materials science innovation since plastic\u201d. The material is similar to the sci-fi liquid-type metal used to create the T-1000 in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45783,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions\/45783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}