26 September, 2016

Scientists Invent a New, Lighter Steel That's as Strong as Titanium

Scientists Invent a New, Lighter Steel That's as Strong as Titanium: "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. This new metal has a strength-to-weight ratio that matches even our best titanium alloys, but at one tenth the cost, and can be created on a small scale with machinery already used to make automotive-grade steel. The study appears in Nature.

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