{"id":87237,"date":"2019-01-30T18:32:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/engineers-metallic-wood-has-the-strength-of-titanium-and-the-density-of-water"},"modified":"2019-01-30T18:32:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:32:48","slug":"engineers-metallic-wood-has-the-strength-of-titanium-and-the-density-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/engineers-metallic-wood-has-the-strength-of-titanium-and-the-density-of-water","title":{"rendered":"Engineer\u2019s \u2018metallic wood\u2019 has the strength of titanium and the density of water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-metallic-wood-has-the-strength-of-titanium-and-the-density-of-water2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>High-performance golf clubs and airplane wings are made out of titanium, which is as strong as steel but about twice as light. These properties depend on the way a metal\u2019s atoms are stacked, but random defects that arise in the manufacturing process mean that these materials are only a fraction as strong as they could theoretically be. An architect, working on the scale of individual atoms, could design and build new materials that have even better strength-to-weight ratios.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study published in Nature <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s School of Engineering and Applied Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Cambridge have done just that. They have built a sheet of nickel with nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter.<\/p>\n<p>The empty space of the pores, and the self-assembly process in which they\u2019re made, make the porous metal akin to a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/natural+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural material<\/a>, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wood\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-01-metallic-wood-strength-titanium-density.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;01-metallic-wood-strength-titanium-density.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-performance golf clubs and airplane wings are made out of titanium, which is as strong as steel but about twice as light. These properties depend on the way a metal\u2019s atoms are stacked, but random defects that arise in the manufacturing process mean that these materials are only a fraction as strong as they could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87237","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}