{"id":242245,"date":"2026-08-05T09:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/scientists-just-3d-printed-one-of-the-hardest-metals-on-earth"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:10:30","slug":"scientists-just-3d-printed-one-of-the-hardest-metals-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/scientists-just-3d-printed-one-of-the-hardest-metals-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just 3D printed one of the hardest metals on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-3d-printed-one-of-the-hardest-metals-on-earth.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The results provide a foundation for further development, but several challenges remain. The researchers want to reduce cracking, improve durability, and determine how to manufacture more complicated shapes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe approach of forming metal materials by softening them rather than fully melting them is novel, and it has the potential to be applied not only to cemented carbides, which were the focus of this study, but also to other materials,\u201d said Marumoto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results provide a foundation for further development, but several challenges remain. The researchers want to reduce cracking, improve durability, and determine how to manufacture more complicated shapes. \u201cThe approach of forming metal materials by softening them rather than fully melting them is novel, and it has the potential to be applied not only to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242245","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=242245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}