Penn engineer's 'metallic wood' has the strength of titanium and the density of water
Date | 28th, Jan 2019 |
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Source | EurekAlert - Scientific News Websites |
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In a new study published in Nature Scientific Reports, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Cambridge have built a sheet of nickel with nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter.