{"id":77993,"date":"2018-04-22T19:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T02:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-metallic-glass"},"modified":"2018-04-22T19:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T02:02:34","slug":"artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-metallic-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-metallic-glass","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of metallic glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-metallic-glass2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you combine two or three metals together, you will get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns.<\/p>\n<p>But once in a while, under just the right conditions, you get something entirely new: a futuristic alloy called metallic glass. The amorphous material\u2019s atoms are arranged every which way, much like the atoms of the glass in a window. Its glassy nature makes it stronger and lighter than today\u2019s best steel, and it stands up better to corrosion and wear.<\/p>\n<p>Although metallic glass shows a lot of promise as a protective coating and alternative to steel, only a few thousand of the millions of possible combinations of ingredients have been evaluated over the past 50 years, and only a handful developed to the point that they may become useful.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2018\/april\/artificial-intelligence-accelerates-discovery-of-metallic-glass\/?platform=hootsuite\">https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2018\/april\/artificial-...=hootsuite<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you combine two or three metals together, you will get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns. But once in a while, under just the right conditions, you get something entirely new: a futuristic alloy called metallic glass. The amorphous material\u2019s atoms are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77993","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=77993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}