{"id":187619,"date":"2024-04-18T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/3d-printed-metamaterial-is-stronger-than-anything-in-nature"},"modified":"2024-04-18T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:22:54","slug":"3d-printed-metamaterial-is-stronger-than-anything-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/3d-printed-metamaterial-is-stronger-than-anything-in-nature","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed \u201cmetamaterial\u201d is stronger than anything in nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-metamaterial-is-stronger-than-anything-in-nature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using lasers and metal powder, Australian scientists have created a super strong, super lightweight new \u2014 but they got the idea for this sci fi-sounding creation from plants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge<\/strong>: Materials that are strong yet lightweight, such as carbon fiber and graphene, are used to make everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/hard-tech\/transparent-brain-implant\">medical implants<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/transportation\/airship\">airships<\/a>, and developing ones with ever greater \u201cstrength-to-weight ratios\u201d is the goal of many material scientists.<\/p>\n<p>In pursuit of that goal, some have turned to nature, looking for ways to replicate in metal the hollow lattice structures, like those in the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/3d3d674e304d444d35457a6333566d54\/index.html\">Victoria water lily<\/a>, that make some plants remarkably strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using lasers and metal powder, Australian scientists have created a super strong, super lightweight new \u2014 but they got the idea for this sci fi-sounding creation from plants. The challenge: Materials that are strong yet lightweight, such as carbon fiber and graphene, are used to make everything from medical implants to airships, and developing ones [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187619","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\/187619","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=187619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}