{"id":74777,"date":"2018-01-01T11:44:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T19:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/titanium-gold-alloy-physicists-combine-gold-with-titanium-and-quadruple-its-strength"},"modified":"2018-01-07T12:13:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T20:13:12","slug":"titanium-gold-alloy-physicists-combine-gold-with-titanium-and-quadruple-its-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/titanium-gold-alloy-physicists-combine-gold-with-titanium-and-quadruple-its-strength","title":{"rendered":"Titanium-Gold Alloy: Physicists Combine Gold with Titanium And Quadruple Its Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/titanium-gold-alloy-physicists-combine-gold-with-titanium-and-quadruple-its-strength.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Rice University have discovered a titanium alloy that\u2019s better than titanium at being a medical implant, and it is four times harder than titanium and a vast majority of steels.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/videos\/this-patient-received-the-first-3d-printed-titanium-ribcage\/\">bone replacements<\/a>, the go-to material is still titanium. Hard, wear-resistant, and compatible to the body, titanium looks like the best alternative to actual bone, maybe even better. Who knew that you could improve the \u2018gold standard\u2019 by just adding actual gold?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/physicists-combine-gold-with-titanium-and-quadruple-its-strength\/?utm_content=buffer18bd2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer?utm_content=buffer18bd2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/physicists-combine-gold-with-titanium-a...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Rice University have discovered a titanium alloy that\u2019s better than titanium at being a medical implant, and it is four times harder than titanium and a vast majority of steels. When it comes to bone replacements, the go-to material is still titanium. Hard, wear-resistant, and compatible to the body, titanium looks like the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74777","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\/74777","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74836,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74777\/revisions\/74836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}