I want a sword. Then I want to go back in time and join the Crusades.
I’m glad they’re making this stuff better.
I look at how the US treats Israel and I just think that we are the worst alloy ever.
If it is easier to machine in my shop...l I will make fortunes. I mostly refuse titanium machining. Just not worth the headache.
Good ol’ tritanium
Chinese reporting the same breakthrough any day now.
“This innovation could be used to produce metals with exceptional combinations of strength and ductility,”
Wouldn’t be Biden proof..nothing is.
If you go back, think artillery, chemical weapons, and repeating rifles, please.
Why all the non- Caucasian names?
It’s Rearden Metal, nothing new, Ayn Rand invented it many decades ago.
Nice to see MIT finally catching up
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Titanium is very abundant but hard to process and alloy. The article doesn’t provide much information about what the advance really is. The big step was done several years ago with the invention of making titanium without needing to use the Kroll process by using another method to produce titanium powder, opening the door to “meltless titanium” in a powder form that could enable various powders to create new alloys using powder metallurgy. Been a long time since working with folks developing this area, but the potential for producing titanium more efficiently and creating new alloys has been studied for decades now, would be nice if the article provided more than the advantages available, which has been known for a long time.
Maybe they should use it on 777 thrust links.
Has MIT figured out transparent aluminum yet?