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"You can blast it with electricity, hose it with chemicals, nuke it with radiation, emulate it with a torch, and run it over with a truck simultaneously, and it'll fight you with every molecule and keep its strength to The Bitter End."
"Solid carbon has many magical properties that marked a breakthrough."
"A new stronger and lighter material of carbon nanotubes' caliber wouldn't open doors to new design possibilities; it would open portals to new dimensions."
"Quantum simulation: the ability to simulate a quantum system which would be amazing for things like discovering new materials with entirely new properties."
"The performance was absolute. It was far beyond our current Material Science that we currently possess."
"The performance, absolute performance, it was far beyond actually our material science that we currently possess."
"Graphene is amazing; it's the material of superlatives, best in everything."
"With all its versatile functions, bronze seems Flint's natural successor."
"If you connect the carbon atoms one way, you get graphite, which is soft and dark; connect them another way, you get diamond, which is hard and clear."
"Quantum simulation would mean that we would be able to rapidly prototype many different materials inside a quantum computer and test all their physical parameters."
"The value of a material is not in the atoms itself; it's in how those atoms are arranged."
"Gravity storage is fine, but what you want to do it with is a cheap material that is resilient."
"The team are planning more projects using different materials and with a focus on further reducing waste."
"Electrons in graphene are free because the graphene is so pure there aren't any impurities these things to get bound to."
"Tesla has their own R&D group working on material science things that we would never do in a normal OEM."
"The price of one gram of thorium is 127 times cheaper."
"Carbon is a lot more reactive... it does a lot more interesting things."
"Advanced materials like carbon nanotubes transform how we live."
"One layer of graphene coating... stronger than steel at that atom layer. Wow, so it's super strong!"
"Making new materials with nanotechnology: playing with atoms."
"So let's talk about the first one which is the castings made out of like a sand casting."
"This crude matter is much more amazing and the process that it goes through is much more amazing than anything fantastical we have yet thought up."
"Everything has irreducible levels. At some point, materially speaking, maybe there's something smaller than a quark."
"This N3 Nano coating is an absolute game changer for the woodworking world."
"We need more different materials and textures in cases... I love that the Cougar max behind me looks like it's metal but it's not."
"The Harvey process and now exploited the physics of steel to recreate the benefits of compound armor wholly within a single material."
"It was a major breakthrough this was the first time that people had seen the interior of matter had seen the atomic arrangements inside a piece of crystalline matter."
"If you can control the rate in which this iron cools down you can actually manipulate what is happening here in regards to the iron and the carbon and this is very important."
"At very first, these guns were actually made with barrels that were made out of that same sort of nickel steel that the Winchester 1894 was, but this quickly gave way to a chrome moly because nickel steel is terrible at holding blue."
"Material selection requires you to be an observer and student of the built world."
"Plastics that they use is very lightweight, and that's why it's possible."
"The moment you press them face to face they're bonded together just from the attractive forces of the copper atoms alone."
"The primary benefit of using spherical particles is packing density."
"I've barely scratched the surface of what kinds of sealants, silicones, adhesives, polymers that this pigment could be mixed with."
"Everything that surrounds us ourselves included can be described as macroscopic collections of fluctuations vibrations and oscillations in quantum mechanical fields Mata is confined energy bound within fields Frozen in a Quantum time."
"Materials for brake pads have evolved past hazardous asbestos to organic-based friction materials."
"Vantablack uses an arrangement of carbon nanotubes."
"Spider silk: like what happens when you mix stretchy steel."
"Carbon nanotubes had the strongest tensile strength known to man."
"In my humble opinion, advancements in material science like this have the largest knock-on effect in the advancement of human technologies."
"Titanium is one of those words that has entered common language. It's become synonymous with strength."
"As long as the polymer usage is still questionable."
"The humble brick could actually be turned into a battery."
"Nature is very used to dealing with these materials for millions of years."
"I hope the information in this video has helped give you a better understanding of the mechanical properties of this material."
"Bullets are softer than the steel of the barrel. The relationship between the barrel and bullet requires the barrel to be significantly hotter than any bullet that can ever go through it."
"Spider silk might just become one of the most important materials around."
"The bushcraft black and high carbon steel a black coating on top of this so that it does not it's not gonna oxidize."
"Chitins certainly do have super teeth made of super material."
"Curious about this hidden feature, he looked into it and figured out what was keeping the glass together."
"There's this alien piece of metal that they have... it's atomically aligned and layered."
"An astonishing thinness of material, translucent stone down to even 1/40th of an inch thick."
"You can make graphene with it... it's very cool."
"Scientists from the best institutions in the world have tried to recreate Damascus steel but none of them have figured it out."
"It's so water repellent that water genuinely bounces off the material."
"Human intention can significantly influence properties of materials and the nature of reality."
"Pikax is spacex's variant of the NASA-designed phenolic impregnated carbon ablator."
"Metals have been known for thousands of years."
"Impact characteristics and back face deformation are very important topics."
"This wire is mostly made of the wire itself... capable of handling higher heat, ethanol, alcohol, much stronger."
"The possibilities with graphene are truly endless."
"You harden the bullet by alloying lead with antimony."
"The biggest thing that's gonna be happening for making games look better is really not advancing the graphics technologies but getting materials that actually make sense."
"Advances in material technology, stunning advances in computational ability."
"Perovskites are easy-to-synthetize materials, and are considered the future of solar cells."
"Innovation is about overcoming challenges, and copper diffusion introduces additional risk."
"Aluminum is cheap and abundant and everywhere and we just wrap our hot dogs in it but it is still a little bit of a wonder material."
"Graphene: improving material performance and charting a path towards our low carbon future."
"Blades made of Damascus steel are said to be resistant to shattering and one of the sharpest swords known to man."
"With thixomolding, magnesium performs as well as or better than gigacast aluminum for both properties."
"Graphene: 200 times stronger than steel but six times lighter."
"You know what I think is really cool? This webbing. The tensile strength is off the charts."
"Quantum computers could totally revolutionize how we discover and design new materials."
"How do we get wood to turn to stone... that's what I'm talking about."
"Aerogel: This mind-blowing transparent substance doesn't look like much, but it's actually the lightest solid on the planet."
"Damascus steel: It could slice a feather in half in mid-air but was still strong enough to run through somebody's armor like it was aluminum foil."
"The forging process of the metal required it to be heated to around 3000 degrees to liquefy it."
"It's a powder-based process, so it's actually coming from the Stratasys SAF technology or Selective Absorption Fusion."
"It was just a quick comment but they suggested that with their super strong wood be possible to make lightweight and low-cost armor or in other words bulletproof wood."
"Adding a second layer could make it over five times stronger."
"Graphene: up to 200 times stronger than steel."
"It's like the metal has a brain and it has like a memory that gets like Snapped back when it gets in hot water."
"Battery grade lithium actually has to be extremely precise Ultra Pure because if you have any impurities in lithium it causes degradation of the battery."
"Kevlar, famously used in body armor, military helmets, but also in things like bike riding and skis."
"Graphene has long been heralded as a miracle material."
"Supercapacitors are carbon-based, they can take the strain off the supply chain for elements like lithium, nickel, and cobalt."
"Rockwool insulation is a thing, and it originates from a volcanic rock that has been melted down at around 2912 degrees Fahrenheit."
"So we've gained about 400 percent in stiffness by adding 0.3 percent one part in 300 of graphene."
"Graphene is not indestructible, but it's getting pretty close."
"Even a pencil contains a substantial amount of graphene."
"I believe now if we fully understand PZT, we're well on our way."
"Nobody talks about the fact that coronavirus lives on plastics for three days."
"PLA, polylactic acid, is a bio plastic made from starch."
"It gives the steel a grain... reinforced in the direction that it will be hit."
"But before we get into that, let's talk about some of the materials that make up the Vapormax 2021s."
"Kevlar is a synthetic fiber that we created, and it is very light and it has a high ultimate tensile strength."
"Times lighter than stainless steel, has a quartz chronograph on the inside, you have a tenth of a second indication for one of the registers, 100m of water resistance."
"One material composite can morph its shape and function."
"We are absolutely going to have you back... I want to make sure that this zero cost profoundly researched and documented tool that you have within your body is being used by you for maximum health and healing benefit."
"Quantum computers may be able to help right and if you have the right system around then the hope is also to predict materials which can solve those fundamental questions."
"Graphene was first discovered in 2004, and ever since then, it's been theorized to be able to do basically everything."
"Now if you peel off one individual layer of graphite you get a sheet of what's called graphene one of the strongest materials theorized to exist."
"This is probably going to lead to five different companies. We've learned how to split carbon nanotubes to make graphene nanoribbons."
"Changes at that material level... can end up creating very large, impressive, new capabilities just downstream."
"This AI found 2.2 million candidate new materials... the equivalent of 800 years of human research."
"We are trying to solve two big problems: one is to make a fantastic material, and the other is to make the material at a cost that people are able to use it."
"The material protecting them is called d3o; it's impact resistant yet flexible."
"...the car that didn't just run off hemp but was also made out of hemp, the super lightweight plastic material was 10 times harder than steel."
"PVD basically describes the process where you take a material, turn it into the gas phase, and then deposit it onto a surface."
"That's the great thing about carbon nanofibers."
"...a new super material was born, that could be used to create beams and plates that could hold weight under tension..."
"Carbon fiber barrels: where weight reduction meets accuracy enhancement."
"If we could match it, a spider silk rope as thick as my finger could hold back a jet airplane. Incredible!"
"Durability actually refers to the structural and chemical stability of the material."
"It's carbon fiber for two reasons. Firstly, it keeps the weight down high up, that's always a good thing, but secondly, it's much more resistant to warping."
"Silicon is a really good material to build a quantum computer in."
"Graphene is a single atomic sheet of graphite. Graphite is a chunk of material that's made up of sheets. If you take off one of those sheets, it is graphene. Graphene is one atom thick. It's a sheet of carbon atoms that are arranged like chicken wire."
"...what a gift you know if we could find a material that just levitates by itself."
"Longevity, hydrophobic properties of this are through the roof."
"Carbon fiber is made up of very thin strands of the element carbon, just a bunch of carbon atoms bonded together to form a long chain."
"Simulation plays a vital role in understanding the stability and strength of bone and how it's affected by disease."
"What we learned from that is that matter at the Nano scale can be very, very different structurally and regarding its properties from matter in a big bulk Crystal."
"Graphullerene’s material quality, properties and potential super-lattice structure definitely make it a promising material for optical and electronic devices."
"Aircrete is fire-resistant and considered environmentally friendly because it consumes way less cement."
"Smaller and more numerous grains result in a stronger material."
"Lamborghini was also experimenting with a new material that was stronger and even lighter than his beloved fiberglass: carbon fiber."
"Some of the hardest steels you can get are actually not the straight carbon steels."
"But the best if you're looking at years of protection in the glass vials, the ceramic Coatings"
"Wow, impressive impact on our lead plate."
"It's a very strange material, but it's absolutely ideal."
"Kevlar was invented by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont."
"The stealth suit is made out of a material that is not only lightweight but also flexible and resilient."
"The Crocs material is much better. They actually have a patent on the specific type of plastic they use."
"3D print material design is a complex science and there are a variety of different additives which can be used to achieve similar results."
"In the future, there might be more and more options that we come up with that can mimic the stretchiness and the rebound ability, the strength and the durability, and the repairability of leather."
"In theory, if you never surpass the material's certain stress limit, there are some materials that can last forever."
"The spider silk of blood spiders is an excellent material for extinguishing forest fires."
"The idea behind thermal cycling is that we actually redistribute those grains and we make them physically smaller."
"The smaller and tighter the grain structure, the stronger the steel itself."
"Materials play a profoundly important role in how good this transmission line works."
"The compressive lines stay always within the section... to not get any surprise with this new material."
"You want a material that's highly conductive, has as high a surface area as physically possible, and controlled porosity to allow the ions to move around just the right rate."
"Reducing weight does a couple of things: one, you do use less material... and anytime you can reduce weight, it is that much less energy that it takes to start and stop things moving."
"Superconducting materials are able to conduct electricity with zero resistance."
"Teflon is an incredible plastic; it has a temperature service window as high as 280 degrees Celsius."
"When you're using stress-strain in the plastic region, you always want to use the true stress and not the engineering stress."
"Welcome to my laboratory, this is the mesoscale nuclear materials group where we make and break materials for nuclear technology."
"Vanax is about everything; it's the trinity of edge retention, toughness, and stainlessness."
"The real reason we use Zircaloy in reactors is that they have very low interaction probabilities or cross-sections."
"The Mercury has their own alloy, XK 360 aluminum alloy; it's highly corrosion-resistant."
"We launched today... worked with one of our National Labs in the United States to discover new materials that essentially remove 70% of the lithium required for new batteries."
"Thermogravimetric analysis, or TGA, is a thermoanalytical technique that measures the weight changes of a sample at a given time and temperature."
"What is it that has made aluminum one of the youngest members in the family of metals such an outstanding material? The answer lies in its amazing versatility and unusual combination of properties."
"This is not a light; it's the world's whitest material, which reflects 99% of visible light."
"This becomes a very dense material; it's heavier than the actual wood that it's made of and it becomes very strong because of all those reasons."
"Rado was in fact so confident in the hardness of this new material that they advertised this watch as the world's first scratch-proof watch."
"It's foam! The lightest and most durable in the world."
"3D woven carbon fiber and ceramic matrix composites offer unique properties that significantly improve aircraft performance and efficiency."
"It's a woven dyneema would be, add like a five denier or three denier, it could be just like hands down just like it's just better at everything."
"They are shiny, they are sonorous, they are malleable and ductile."
"The planar process established silicon as the main material for semiconductor electronics."
"It's the lightest weight metal in the world aside from aluminum, but it could hold the weight of an elephant."
"We are finally done with our particle, with our material, sorry."
"Rubber is actually a natural element found in nature."
"I want to share the beauty of fill materials, how to approach them to get incredible results."
"T700 is required to have at least 93% carbon."
"What they managed to do is to make the world's lightest material."
"Imagine holding a brick made out of these; it looks like a brick, probably walks like a brick, smells like a brick, but if you drop it, it falls down slower than a feather."
"Graphene... it's lighter than aluminium, it's harder than diamond, yet more elastic than rubber."
"Nano resin... it's an epoxy that is much lighter or less dense than traditional epoxies but still maintains the same strength."
"When metal is heated past a certain temperature and cooled quickly, smaller grains are formed making the metal harder."
"Stoneware... at that higher temperature the particles of quartz or silica in the clay begin to melt and to fuse together so that stoneware is impervious to liquids even without a glaze."
"It's interesting that Amsteel likes being cyclically loaded."
"Starlight... able to withstand temperatures of up to almost 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit."
"Starlight was the most efficient heat shield ever developed."
"Carbon nanotubes could begin production."
"Graphene, a hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms only one atom thick, epitomizes remarkable thinness."
"Spalling is a process where fragments of material are ejected from a surface due to stress."
"The molecular structure is much tighter and it allows us to do more things with the material."
"We chose 6061 aluminum because it was easy to work with, really good strength to weight ratio, and let us make those small refinements along the way."
"Diamond is an interesting material. It has very high thermal conductivity despite not being metallic."
"Dividing thermal conductivity by the volumetric heat capacity gives us a useful parameter that describes the ability of a material to conduct heat, versus its ability to store it."
"I think I'm a believer that fret material definitely has a huge impact on tone."
"We're always interested in innovation and, hopefully, one day we can come up with a material that is better than animal leather and has a lower environmental impact."
"It's really stiff, it's really strong, and it's really tough, resistant to breaking."
"The great thing about thermoform is the advantages of lightweight and abrasion resistance."
"Matter has imminent powers of morphogenesis."
"Under pressure, you can have this enormous variety of things happening: superconductors, insulator-metal transitions, high energy density materials, super hard materials, optically unique materials."
"This topological matter means that the details are not important because everything is robust."
"Diamond is the hardest known material on the earth."
"Stability of a material is the ability for that material to remain unchanged in the presence of extreme temperatures."
"Hardness is defined as the ability for a material to resist abrasion from another material."
"Can we actually build a perfect crystal?"
"The inventions of the future will be built with something else, a world-changing material called graphene."
"It's entirely possible that SpaceX is planning to combat physics with Material Science."
"Zirconia is not a metal, it's a ceramic."
"Graphene has been hailed as one of the most important breakthroughs in materials since the plastics revolution more than a century ago."
"Yamamoto developed their own version of neoprene that they said is eco-friendly and sustainable."
"...the problems that I've described to you are not problems that material scientists aren't used to solving already."
"Material Science has really opened my eyes to how these tiny building blocks of matter result in the incredible material world that we've built ourselves."