{"id":75838,"date":"2018-02-08T21:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/new-process-could-make-wood-as-strong-as-titanium-alloys-but-lighter-and-cheaper"},"modified":"2018-02-08T21:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:42:31","slug":"new-process-could-make-wood-as-strong-as-titanium-alloys-but-lighter-and-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/new-process-could-make-wood-as-strong-as-titanium-alloys-but-lighter-and-cheaper","title":{"rendered":"New process could make wood as strong as titanium alloys but lighter and cheaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-process-could-make-wood-as-strong-as-titanium-alloys-but-lighter-and-cheaper.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) have found a way to make wood more than 10 times times stronger and tougher than before, creating a natural substance that is stronger than many titanium alloys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new way to treat wood makes it 12 times stronger than natural wood and 10 times tougher,\u201d said Liangbing Hu of UMD\u2019s A. James Clark School of Engineering and the leader of the team that did the research, to be published on February 8, 2018 in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>. \u201cThis could be a competitor to steel or even titanium alloys, it is so strong and durable. It\u2019s also comparable to carbon fiber, but much less expensive.\u201d Hu is an associate professor of materials science and engineering and a member of the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is both strong and tough, which is a combination not usually found in nature,\u201d said Teng Li, the co-leader of the team and Samuel P. Langley Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at UMD\u2019s Clark School. His team measured the dense wood\u2019s mechanical properties. \u201cIt is as strong as steel, but six times lighter. It takes 10 times more energy to fracture than natural wood. It can even be bent and molded at the beginning of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-02-wood-strong-titanium-alloys-lighter.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;02-wood-strong-titanium-alloys-lighter.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) have found a way to make wood more than 10 times times stronger and tougher than before, creating a natural substance that is stronger than many titanium alloys. \u201cThis new way to treat wood makes it 12 times stronger than natural wood and 10 times tougher,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75838","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}