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New Titanium Alloy Bends the Rules

Posted by michael on from the joys-of-materials-science dept.

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."

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  1. Obvously, the server isnt built out of this stuff by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Damned slashdot effect.

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  2. Re:Interesting uses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...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. ... It can be bent and straightened repeatedly without becoming brittle.

    Sounds like my penis...