{"id":97984,"date":"2019-10-30T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T17:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/hard-as-ceramic-tough-as-steel-newly-discovered-connection-could-help-design-of-nextgen-alloys"},"modified":"2019-10-30T10:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T17:23:48","slug":"hard-as-ceramic-tough-as-steel-newly-discovered-connection-could-help-design-of-nextgen-alloys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/hard-as-ceramic-tough-as-steel-newly-discovered-connection-could-help-design-of-nextgen-alloys","title":{"rendered":"Hard as ceramic, tough as steel: Newly discovered connection could help design of nextgen alloys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hard-as-ceramic-tough-as-steel-newly-discovered-connection-could-help-design-of-nextgen-alloys3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new way to calculate the interaction between a metal and its alloying material could speed the hunt for a new material that combines the hardness of ceramic with the resilience of metal.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, made by engineers at the University of Michigan, identifies two aspects of this interaction that can accurately predict how a particular alloy will behave\u2014and with fewer demanding, from-scratch quantum mechanical calculations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings may enable the use of machine learning algorithms for alloy design, potentially accelerating the search for better alloys that could be used in turbine engines and nuclear reactors,\u201d said Liang Qi, assistant professor of materials science and engineering who led the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new way to calculate the interaction between a metal and its alloying material could speed the hunt for a new material that combines the hardness of ceramic with the resilience of metal. The discovery, made by engineers at the University of Michigan, identifies two aspects of this interaction that can accurately predict how a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,873,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-nuclear-energy","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97984","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=97984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}