{"id":439,"date":"2022-04-20T07:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2022-04-20T07:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:14:56","slug":"mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/20\/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Engineers Create the \u201cImpossible\u201d \u2013 New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The researchers found that the new material\u2019s elastic modulus \u2014 a measure of how much force it takes to deform a material \u2014 is between four and six times greater than that of bulletproof glass. They also found that its yield strength, or how much force it takes to break the material, is twice that of steel, even though the material has only about one-sixth the density of steel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic\/\">MIT Engineers Create the \u201cImpossible\u201d \u2013 New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers found that the new material\u2019s elastic modulus \u2014 a measure of how much force it takes to deform a material \u2014 is between four and six times greater than that of bulletproof glass. They also found that its yield strength, or how much force it takes to break the material, is twice that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}