{"id":227990,"date":"2025-12-29T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/sugar-derived-crystals-show-stiffness-approaching-that-of-aluminum"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:05:00","slug":"sugar-derived-crystals-show-stiffness-approaching-that-of-aluminum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/sugar-derived-crystals-show-stiffness-approaching-that-of-aluminum","title":{"rendered":"Sugar-derived crystals show stiffness approaching that of aluminum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sugar-derived-crystals-show-stiffness-approaching-that-of-aluminum2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mucic acid crystals grown from a water-based solution achieved a <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2026\/sc\/d5sc05888k https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2026\/sc\/d5sc05888k\" target=\"_blank\">record-breaking stiffness<\/a> for an organic crystal.<\/p>\n<p>Stiffness is often described as the measure of resistance to deformation when a material is subjected to an external force. When we think of a stiff material, metals or ceramics usually come to mind, rather than crystals or organic molecules such as sugar or citric acid.<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen bonds have the ability to make even famously brittle and hard organic crystals ultrastiff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mucic acid crystals grown from a water-based solution achieved a record-breaking stiffness for an organic crystal. Stiffness is often described as the measure of resistance to deformation when a material is subjected to an external force. When we think of a stiff material, metals or ceramics usually come to mind, rather than crystals or organic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227990","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}