{"id":29044,"date":"2016-08-17T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/washington-dc-the-creation-of-a-new-material-has-long-been-either-an-accident-or-a-matter-of-trial-and-error"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:54:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:54:01","slug":"washington-dc-the-creation-of-a-new-material-has-long-been-either-an-accident-or-a-matter-of-trial-and-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/washington-dc-the-creation-of-a-new-material-has-long-been-either-an-accident-or-a-matter-of-trial-and-error","title":{"rendered":"Revolution by Design: The Materials Genome Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/washington-dc-the-creation-of-a-new-material-has-long-been-either-an-accident-or-a-matter-of-trial-and-error.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC \u2014 The creation of a new material has long been either an accident or a matter of trial and error. Steel, for instance, was developed over hundreds of years by people who didn\u2019t know why what they were doing worked (or didn\u2019t work). Generations of blacksmiths observed that iron forged in charcoal was stronger than iron that wasn\u2019t, and iron that was forged in a very high-temperature, charcoal-fired furnace and rapidly cooled was even stronger, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019re still learning things about steel, we now have all kinds of recipes that we can use to make steels with different properties depending on the application, but those recipes took a lot of time, sweat and toil to develop. Wouldn\u2019t it be great if we could skip over all the trials and errors and design new materials from scratch with the exact properties we want?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperialvalleynews.com\/index.php\/news\/8-news\/10534-revolution-by-design-the-materials-genome-initiative.html\">http:\/\/www.imperialvalleynews.com\/index.php\/news\/8-news\/1053...ative.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC \u2014 The creation of a new material has long been either an accident or a matter of trial and error. Steel, for instance, was developed over hundreds of years by people who didn\u2019t know why what they were doing worked (or didn\u2019t work). Generations of blacksmiths observed that iron forged in charcoal was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29044","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\/29044","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50027,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29044\/revisions\/50027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}