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Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-exceptionally-strong-lightweight-metal.html
> 
>> A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
>> Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light
>> structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus,
>> or stiffness-to-weight ratio. The new metal is composed of magnesium
>> infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide
>> nanoparticles. It could be used to make lighter airplanes,
>> spacecraft, and cars, helping to improve fuel efficiency, as well as
>> in mobile electronics and biomedical devices.
>>
>> To create the super-strong but lightweight metal, the team found a
>> new way to disperse and stabilize nanoparticles in molten metals.
>> They also developed a scalable manufacturing method that could pave
>> the way for more high-performance lightweight metals. The research
>> was published today in Nature.
 
What's the cost compared to 6061-T6 aluminum and is it weldable and
machineable?



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Jim Pennino

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Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 20:11 -0600
  Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-12-27 13:32 +1100
    Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 20:46 -0600
  Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-27 02:44 +0000
    Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 20:48 -0600
      Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-27 03:13 +0000

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