{"id":183678,"date":"2024-02-26T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/engineering-the-unbreakable-mits-microscopic-metamaterials-defy-supersonic-impacts"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:53:23","slug":"engineering-the-unbreakable-mits-microscopic-metamaterials-defy-supersonic-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/engineering-the-unbreakable-mits-microscopic-metamaterials-defy-supersonic-impacts","title":{"rendered":"Engineering the Unbreakable: MIT\u2019s Microscopic Metamaterials Defy Supersonic Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineering-the-unbreakable-mits-microscopic-metamaterials-defy-supersonic-impacts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>High-speed experiments can help identify lightweight, protective \u201cmetamaterials\u201d for spacecraft, vehicles, helmets, or other objects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An intricate, honeycomb-like structure of struts and beams could withstand a supersonic impact better than a solid slab of the same material. What\u2019s more, the specific structure matters, with some being more resilient to impacts than others.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what MIT engineers are finding in experiments with microscopic metamaterials \u2014 materials that are intentionally printed, assembled, or otherwise engineered with microscopic architectures that give the overall material exceptional properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-speed experiments can help identify lightweight, protective \u201cmetamaterials\u201d for spacecraft, vehicles, helmets, or other objects. An intricate, honeycomb-like structure of struts and beams could withstand a supersonic impact better than a solid slab of the same material. What\u2019s more, the specific structure matters, with some being more resilient to impacts than others. That\u2019s what MIT [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183678","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}