We might get cars that weigh 500lbs less that are nearly impossible to dent.
I can see this useful for housing as well, if they can bring the costs down.
It’s arguable that the whole history of mechanical engineering starts with the history of materials.
Better safety glasses, if the stuff can be made transparent.
Unbreakable store windows. BLM will not like that.
...bicycles?
Gun barrels. The missing piece from a 3D printed firearm. Oh hell yeah.
But Flammable.
-PJ
In the winter they will just shatter.
Otakus already knew that 2D is better than 3D.
Spider silk is reported to be 5 times stronger than steel and featherweight. Spiders beat us to it. No?
My current road bike (Trek Madone) weighs 20-ish lbs. Let's shoot for 10!
Stronger blister packs for shipping and display of products. Products that will last for ever as you will never be able to open the packaging it comes in to use it!
They forgot to add it is UV degradeable. So in a few short yrs the car will disappear into dust. This will save storage place in a lot of junkyards. Never mind the dust created is toxic to all living things.
Been there, done that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqiDu1BQXY
So you’re saying it’s made from oil, eh? No future for this stuff then...
nearly impossible to dent, but can be carried away by a drunk frat boy and his roommate.
Wait until they weaponize the transformation of 3-D objects/materials into 2-D matter ...
Transparent aluminum?
New Atlas is a cool website. I pop into it occasionally myself.
This article is a bit of a jumble for me to follow. The Nature magazine article it’s based on is behind a paywall so no joy reading this to maybe help me understand better. The article largely copy and pastes the one page MIT news release that is listed below the Nature link.
I’d like to understand this chemistry better but just make couldn’t make sense of much. Hydrogen bonding that is referred to in the article is closer to a very weak attraction between adjacent molecules as opposed to a strong bond of hydrogen to another element. That said though, I’m not a materials specialist and it’s been way too many years that I dabbled on the edges of the science by doing synthesis computer modeling to support LLD polyethylene production.