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Interesting... MIT researchers have developed a new material that's as strong as steel but as light as plastic.
It can be easily manufactured in large quantities, and the use cases range from lightweight coatings for cars and phones to building blocks for massive structures such as bridges,
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Strong as steel? Under tension, compression and shear across a broad range on temperature? Ain’t holding my breath.
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Let me know when I can get a role of filament to try on my Ender 3.
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A bunch of idiots at MIT...
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Sounds like Titanium. Stronger than steel, light as plastic. What’s it cost?
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Neat. They made polymer sheets like graphite. Another cool material is metallic glass (otherwise known as amorphous metal). That material type looks quite promising also.
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Looks like Ford can make the F150 beds from this material once it's commercialized. Aluminum is for beer cans.
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Strong as steel? Under tension, compression and shear across a broad range on temperature? Ain’t holding my breath. And what grade of steel? A36 structural steel? 4130 at Rc30-35? 5160H at RC 48? M4 at Rc 62?  Composites were supposedly going to replace everything 20 years ago...except for their nasty habit of spectacular failures...
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Made from oil? It'll be a no go when Biden shuts down the last of the oil wells.
About those bridges - plastics are notorious for breaking down in the sun. Do the bridge warranties go past 3 years?
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How many have seen a Rearden Steel Plant?😁
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Sounds like carbon fiber.
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Looks like Ford can make the F150 beds from this material once it's commercialized. Aluminum is for beer cans. I bought a F350 when the 2017 trucks were on the lot. Went with a new 2016 instead because the 2017 had an aluminum bed. Don't want anything to do with that crap.
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Graphene has been around for a while.
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Any guesses on how long it will take for the means to creat this wonder material to make it to China?
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They been building UFOs outta that schit forever.
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Better source than the McNews https://news.mit.edu/2022/polymer-lightweight-material-2d-0202The researchers found that the new material’s elastic modulus — a measure of how much force it takes to deform a material — is between four and six times greater than that of bulletproof glass. They also found that its yield strength, or how much force it takes to break the material, is twice that of steel, even though the material has only about one-sixth the density of steel.Even if it's not one-for-one replacement the uses could be revolutionary.
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Every bridge in the Northeast should have bridges made out of this .
I wonder how many Chinese National research" students" helped in this study.
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Sounds like Titanium. Stronger than steel, light as plastic. What’s it cost? Or a variant of carbon fiber (aka Kevlar). Stupid USAToday writer is too ignorant to capture any salient/useful information... ask the right questions etc. Cost is ALWAYS critical. I was working on a uni-body car design of injection molded HDPE in the back of my mind 3-4 years ago... I could honestly claim it to be "Stronger than a steel car, cheaper to build, made from "green" recyclables... yada yada..." But throw a match on it in a crash... oops. ALL materials have a chink in their armor.
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