{"id":179850,"date":"2024-01-04T21:23:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/10x-stronger-than-kevlar-amorphous-silicon-carbide-could-revolutionize-material-science"},"modified":"2024-01-04T21:23:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:23:25","slug":"10x-stronger-than-kevlar-amorphous-silicon-carbide-could-revolutionize-material-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/10x-stronger-than-kevlar-amorphous-silicon-carbide-could-revolutionize-material-science","title":{"rendered":"10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/10x-stronger-than-kevlar-amorphous-silicon-carbide-could-revolutionize-material-science2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A material that doesn\u2019t just rival the strength of diamonds and graphene, but boasts a yield strength 10 times greater than Kevlar, renowned for its use in bulletproof vests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/delft-university-of-technology\/\">Delft University of Technology<\/a>, led by assistant professor Richard Norte, have unveiled a remarkable new material with the potential to impact the world of material science: amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC).<\/p>\n<p>Beyond its exceptional strength, this material demonstrates mechanical properties crucial for vibration isolation on a microchip. Amorphous silicon carbide is therefore particularly suitable for making ultra-sensitive microchip sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A material that doesn\u2019t just rival the strength of diamonds and graphene, but boasts a yield strength 10 times greater than Kevlar, renowned for its use in bulletproof vests. Researchers at Delft University of Technology, led by assistant professor Richard Norte, have unveiled a remarkable new material with the potential to impact the world of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179850","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}