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New Titanium Alloy Bends the Rules
BinaryForces writes "According to Yahoo Takashi Saito and his colleagues at the Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories in Japan have developed a super alloy with unheard of strength and flexibility. It's not only light, but it can be stretched to more than 2.5 times its original length and return to its previous size. Heat causes almost no expansion. It can be bent and straightened repeatedly without becoming brittle. And the cool part is it was developed using high power computation instead of the traditional trial and error method. More details at Nature's website."
Yummy titanium Katana for Hiro!
meh.
"Takashi Saito and his colleagues at the Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories in Japan have developed a super alloy with unheard of strength and flexibility. It's not only light, but it can be stretched to more than 2.5 times its original length and return to its previous size. "
I allready have a material like that, but it isn't a metal. (Well it can feel like one)
... and their ocean-dwelling UFO-crashing alien masters sure have been up to some good work lately!
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Seriously though, how long until we see this metal in Oakleys, I wonder
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That would make them flying cars.
it can be stretched to more than 2.5 times its original length and return to its previous size
Yeah, but do it too often and you'll go blind.
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I have a really funny feeling that it all start with one of the guys in the lab looking at the computer and saying, "A keyboard, how quaint"; next thing you know we got transparent alumi,er, a new Titanium Ally.
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