…surfaces. https://youtu.be/HP6QsMDrvKE Liquid stream of silk solution solidifies to a fiber, adheres to and lifts several steel bolts from a petri dish filled with sand. Credit: Marco Lo Presti, Tufts…
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…concentrations of niobium, a strategic metal used to make lighter, stronger steel for aircraft, pipelines, and EVs and a key component in some next-generation battery and superconducting technologies,” Dr. Dröllner…
…sizes. You can’t see them, but most of the metals around you—coins, silverware, even the steel beams holding up buildings and overpasses—are made up of tiny metal grains. Under a…
…stainless steel powder. Through high-speed imaging, researchers studied the dynamics of the melt pool, observing a substantial reduction in melt pool turbulence and mitigation of “spatter”— the molten particles of…
A prolific plant, bamboo has long been considered a good building material in many countries. Now, UBC Okanagan researchers have created a way to make it even stronger. Once used…
…when they are cooled to less than 450 degrees Fahrenheit below zero (-268 degrees Celsius), they can generate magnetic fields up to 10 times stronger than ordinary electromagnets, enough to…
…single layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb arrangement, graphene is stronger pound-for-pound than steel and conducts electricity better than copper. Since the discovery of graphene, scientists have wondered if…
…the principles of the anticrystal are powerful because they can provide insight into many crystalline materials as well. Making alloys like steel stronger often involves making their crystalline patterns smaller…
…took a different approach, realizing that the functions of that membrane could instead be performed by a specially coated metal mesh, a much stronger and more flexible material that could…
…in Norway, have been inspired by his design, but in that case, modern materials — steel and concrete — were used, so that construction provided no information about the practicality…
…example, the maps could give researchers clues to understand why substituting one metal for another could make an alloy stronger or weaker, or why one metal outperforms others in extremely…
…of Venus’s dense atmosphere, where the experiment would likely return even stronger results. “If the ground moves a little bit, it shakes the air a lot more on Venus than…
…composite material of its eco-friendly recycling. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology CFRP, a composite material that contains carbon fiber, which is about four times lighter than steel yet…
…cylindrical coil of superconducting cable that generates a field of 4 tesla, about 100,000 times the magnetic field of the Earth. The field is confined by a steel “yoke” that…
…reach a magnetic field strength of 13 Tesla, about 280,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field. The support structures for the Central Solenoid will have to withstand forces equal…
…zinc is added. While there are much harder engineering materials, they are often more brittle.” Learning from nature is one way of understanding what makes materials stronger and more damage-resistant, added…
…the facility’s air gun to fire steel ball bearings at various fabrics. The team connected the air gun to a vacuum chamber to remove air resistance, allowing it to shoot…
…design and test evolved boosters needed for flights starting with the ninth SLS mission. The new BOLE boosters will replace the steel cases currently used from the space shuttle with…