The Beep Goes On
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Strongest material yet, and "cheap"
The potential here is large, but to what application would you like to see these super-strength materials applied? This might be a boon to the more inventive types. The investment possibilities are probably there as well. I wonder what this new stuff will look like on the detector...?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110110121709.htm
New Glass Stronger and Tougher Than Steel
Glass stronger and tougher than steel? A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of any known material, has been developed and tested by a collaboration of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)and the California Institute of Technology. What's more, even better versions of this new glass may be on the way.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110512150815.htm
Strong, Tough and Now Cheap: New Way to Process Metallic Glass Developed
Stronger than steel or titanium -- and just as tough -- metallic glass is an ideal material for everything from cell-phone cases to aircraft parts. Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a new technique that allows them to make metallic-glass parts utilizing the same inexpensive processes used to produce plastic parts. With this new method, they can heat a piece of metallic glass at a rate of a million degrees per second and then mold it into any shape in just a few milliseconds.
(obviously not yet obsolete tech, and still making improvements)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110609173718.htm
New Way to Make Lighter, Stronger Steel -- In a Flash
A Detroit entrepreneur surprised university engineers in Ohio recently, when he invented a heat-treatment that makes steel 7 percent stronger than any steel on record -- in less than 10 seconds.
The potential here is large, but to what application would you like to see these super-strength materials applied? This might be a boon to the more inventive types. The investment possibilities are probably there as well. I wonder what this new stuff will look like on the detector...?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110110121709.htm
New Glass Stronger and Tougher Than Steel
Glass stronger and tougher than steel? A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of any known material, has been developed and tested by a collaboration of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)and the California Institute of Technology. What's more, even better versions of this new glass may be on the way.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110512150815.htm
Strong, Tough and Now Cheap: New Way to Process Metallic Glass Developed
Stronger than steel or titanium -- and just as tough -- metallic glass is an ideal material for everything from cell-phone cases to aircraft parts. Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a new technique that allows them to make metallic-glass parts utilizing the same inexpensive processes used to produce plastic parts. With this new method, they can heat a piece of metallic glass at a rate of a million degrees per second and then mold it into any shape in just a few milliseconds.
(obviously not yet obsolete tech, and still making improvements)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110609173718.htm
New Way to Make Lighter, Stronger Steel -- In a Flash
A Detroit entrepreneur surprised university engineers in Ohio recently, when he invented a heat-treatment that makes steel 7 percent stronger than any steel on record -- in less than 10 seconds.
