{"id":204456,"date":"2025-01-24T18:23:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/machine-learning-and-3d-printing-yield-steel-strong-foam-light-materials"},"modified":"2025-01-24T18:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:23:54","slug":"machine-learning-and-3d-printing-yield-steel-strong-foam-light-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/machine-learning-and-3d-printing-yield-steel-strong-foam-light-materials","title":{"rendered":"Machine learning and 3D printing yield steel-strong, foam-light materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/machine-learning-and-3d-printing-yield-steel-strong-foam-light-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Toronto\u2019s Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202410651\" target=\"_blank\">new paper published in <i>Advanced Materials<\/i><\/a>, a team led by Professor Tobin Filleter describes how they made nanomaterials with properties that offer a conflicting combination of exceptional strength, light weight and customizability. The approach could benefit a wide range of industries, from automotive to aerospace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNano-architected materials combine high performance shapes, like making a bridge out of triangles, at nanoscale sizes, which takes advantage of the \u2018smaller is stronger\u2019 effect, to achieve some of the highest strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios, of any material,\u201d says Peter Serles, the first author of the new paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Toronto\u2019s Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam. In a new paper published in Advanced Materials, a team led by Professor Tobin Filleter describes how they made nanomaterials with properties that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204456","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}