Posted on 08/12/2022 5:34:52 PM PDT by Jonty30
An international team of scientists has created carbon nanolattices — constructed from closed-cell plate-architectures — that are stronger than diamonds as a ratio of strength to density.
“Scientists have predicted that nanolattices arranged in a plate-based design would be incredibly strong,” said first author Cameron Crook, a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine.
“But the difficulty in manufacturing structures this way meant that the theory was never proven, until we succeeded in doing it.”
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You could drop your cellphone from the top of your house onto the cement and not break the glass, although from that height your other components might not survive.
The applications of this material are really world changing, beyond our imaginations.
What’s the cost? Is it the consumer market or the fed market? That’s the answer to how well it sells.
It’s carbon, so I can’t imagine it being too costly to produce once it is mastered.
However, I do understand that what can be produced in the lab may not be producible commonly.
space applications?
Knight Rider’s bonded shell possible?
Resisting crater impacts from micro-meteorites.
You might be able to replace some components and achieve reduction in weight, since carbon is very light compared to metal.
I can see this being cost-effective alternative to bullet resistant ceramics.
Repeat after me... “With this nanolatice, I thee wed...”
“Newly-Developed Carbon Nanolattices are Stronger than Diamonds”
There that dirty word there - carbon - that’s going to be a problem.
Not carbon free, not good!
It's only a matter of time.
It's taken about sixty years to scale lasers from continuous milliwatts to continuous megawatts.
But it only took forty years to scale semiconductor memory from a few hundred bits to gigabytes.
The technology for producing and storing antimatter exists today, at least for a few thousand particles at a time. Eventually, it will be scaled up. I hope it's done far out in space, but it may not be.
Even if, by mass production, that you get only 80% of the theoretical performance, you’d still be looking at a substance with 400% better performance than diamond.
I can imagine covering cement with this and having a cement structure that would last 1000 years before it would be so well protected against the elements.
Space elevator.
Higher Ratio of Strength to density or weight.
Meaningless, so does an ant
Hardness and durability of diamond is the standard
It sounds great for auto bodies!
Ringworld Scrith…
Absolutely.
Body shops will hate it. Haha
Anything that needs toughness and durabiity would greatly benefit from this.
Ultra strong lightweight body armor would be another possibility.
If the figures are correct, a standard diamond has a compressibility factor of up to 140 GPa.
If this new material is a real thing, it might be able to withstand up to 700 GPa, which puts it in the same neighbourhood as Platinum which has a GPa of 660.
Great one! LOL
Automobile bodies.
Body Armor.
Covering up concrete or Metal structures to protect them from the environment.
Cell phone glass.
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