{"id":183728,"date":"2024-02-26T17:34:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/3d-printed-titanium-structure-shows-supernatural-strength"},"modified":"2024-02-26T17:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:34:24","slug":"3d-printed-titanium-structure-shows-supernatural-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/3d-printed-titanium-structure-shows-supernatural-strength","title":{"rendered":"3D printed titanium structure shows supernatural strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-titanium-structure-shows-supernatural-strength.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 3D printed \u2018metamaterial\u2019 boasting levels of strength for weight not normally seen in nature or manufacturing could change how we make everything from medical implants to aircraft or rocket parts.<\/p>\n<p>RMIT University researchers created the new metamaterial\u2014a term used to describe an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/artificial+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial material<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/unique+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">unique properties<\/a> not observed in nature\u2014from common titanium alloy.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s the material\u2019s unique lattice structure design, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202308715\">revealed<\/a> in the journal <i>Advanced Materials<\/i>, that makes it anything but common: tests show it\u2019s 50% stronger than the next strongest alloy of similar density used in aerospace applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 3D printed \u2018metamaterial\u2019 boasting levels of strength for weight not normally seen in nature or manufacturing could change how we make everything from medical implants to aircraft or rocket parts. RMIT University researchers created the new metamaterial\u2014a term used to describe an artificial material with unique properties not observed in nature\u2014from common titanium alloy. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183728","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}