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New Steel Is as Strong as Titanium, But Ten Times Cheaper
From shipping containers to skyscrapers to turbines, good old steel is still the workhorse of our modern world. Now, scientists are discovering new secrets to make the material better, lighter, and stronger. Today a team of material scientists at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea announced what they're calling one of the biggest steel breakthroughs of the last few decades: an altogether new type of flexible, ultra-strong, lightweight steel.
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Aw, man. I gotta wait longer before I can get my super-steel gauntlets? :(
Im personally waiting for the carbon nano tube stuff myself :D
You and me both, dude :) The first bionic arm with carbon nano tube muscles that can extend and contract is going to be amazing.
Yes! For Space Elevators!
Though this advancement may help bring that to a reality anyways- as we'll need non-carbon-nanotube materials for the actual elevator car, the stuff in orbit and the stuff connecting it to the earth itself.
What a great tomorrow we have in store for us- if we can support the right technologies and not wipe ourselves out first.
The takeaway here is the technique actually, in coercing the B2 crystals to form and disperse in the right way. The closest I ever got to metallurgy though was igneous petrography, haha, but the concepts are similar. This stuff is just so complex it's amazing that we engineer these metal alloys from the crystals on up.