{"id":32924,"date":"2016-12-25T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T20:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/imperial-college-of-london-makes-worlds-most-heat-resistant-material-at-4232-kelvin"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:10:14","slug":"imperial-college-of-london-makes-worlds-most-heat-resistant-material-at-4232-kelvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/imperial-college-of-london-makes-worlds-most-heat-resistant-material-at-4232-kelvin","title":{"rendered":"Imperial College of London makes world\u2019s most heat resistant material at 4232 kelvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/imperial-college-of-london-makes-worlds-most-heat-resistant-material-at-4232-kelvin.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/newsandeventspggrp\/imperialcollege\/newssummary\/news_22-12-2016-10-21-10\" target=\"blank\">Researchers have discovered that tantalum carbide and hafnium carbide materials can withstand scorching temperatures of nearly 4000 degrees Celsius.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being able to withstand temperatures of nearly 4000\u00b0C could pave the way for both materials to be used in ever more extreme environments, such as in heat resistant shielding for the next generation of hypersonic space vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Tantalum carbide (TaC) and hafnium carbide (HfC) are refractory ceramics, meaning they are extraordinarily resistant to heat. Their ability to withstand extremely harsh environments means that refractory ceramics could be used in thermal protection systems on high-speed vehicles and as fuel cladding in the super-heated environments of nuclear reactors. However, there hasn\u2019t been the technology available to test the melting point of TaC and HfC in the lab to determine how truly extreme an environment they could function in.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/12\/imperial-college-of-london-makes-worlds.html?m=1\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/12\/imperial-college-of-lon...s.html?m=1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered that tantalum carbide and hafnium carbide materials can withstand scorching temperatures of nearly 4000 degrees Celsius. Being able to withstand temperatures of nearly 4000\u00b0C could pave the way for both materials to be used in ever more extreme environments, such as in heat resistant shielding for the next generation of hypersonic space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32924","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49425,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32924\/revisions\/49425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}