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"Supposedly you can use this printer filament like a regular 3D print, but if it gets bent out of shape, it actually remembers its shape and returns back to normal."
"It's super strong, lightweight, plus it's crazy self-healing ability. It's like the perfect material for a high-tech Iron Man suit."
"Peak is the single strongest, stiffest, toughest printable plastic and there's nothing out there that even comes close."
"Nobody can beat Tesla when it comes to Material Science."
"The real magic is when you can get similar materials or dissimilar materials to bond and join."
"AI could help us with climate change by helping us build better materials."
"These lines... were made out of silk strands that were so thin, just tens of nanometers thin, that they caught insects using Van der Waals forces."
"Obsidian, when you have it and fracture it, it's brittle; it fractures into very, very thin planes. How thin? Like molecular level thin."
"And we've given some weapon labs a bit of a scanning, got ourselves super solid materials, and no one seems to be dead, so that's nice."
"Tesla's Material Science team... has played a pivotal role in developing a specialized aluminum alloy with the ideal properties."
"Tubeless ready tires have a layer of latex and ammonia mix."
"Rare earth materials and existing electric motors... undermining the sustainability of electric vehicles."
"For metallic materials, roughness tells the story, not the base color."
"Duct tape island: The duct tape is a freaking miracle material."
"Plastics ended up being much more complex and interesting than I thought."
"Entropy resins aren't just made better, they're made responsibly."
"If you can dream it, entropy resins can help you achieve it."
"New materials... appear to hold the promise of making our current lithium ion batteries old, obsolete, and clunky."
"I'm really impressed with how something made out of nothing more than bits of plastic can perform this well."
"The team are planning more projects using different materials and with a focus on further reducing waste."
"Graphene, it's carbon but they figured out how to make it as a monoatomic layer."
"We need to clarify what it is that people have a right to know."
"Tesla has material scientists who are inventing new materials that have never before existed on planet earth because they need them to improve the quality of their products."
"Just because it's a byproduct doesn't mean it's not aluminum. Aluminum takes different forms. That's how chemistry works."
"Using polymers for these types of batteries could create a whole new market for recyclable materials."
"Advanced materials like carbon nanotubes transform how we live."
"Making new materials with nanotechnology: playing with atoms."
"Rules, especially the ones surrounding carbon fiber and titanium usage, those are meant to be broken."
"Sparks' battery cathode material meets and exceeds the performance of traditional cobalt-carrying cathodes."
"The Harvey process and now exploited the physics of steel to recreate the benefits of compound armor wholly within a single material."
"This was the first time that people had seen the interior of matter had seen the atomic arrangements inside a piece of crystalline matter."
"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."
"3D printers can already build products from a range of materials including plastic, chocolate, glass, concrete, and even metal."
"Wood is carbon neutral, wood is stronger than steel compared to its weight."
"Graphene assures bird droppings, tree sap, dead bugs, and harsh chemicals would be less likely to penetrate stained treated surfaces."
"Graphene products seem to outperform lightweight ceramic coatings in terms of hydrophobicity and resistance to harsh chemicals."
"I think maybe centrifugal casting might be a good way to do it to help get all the porosity and pores out of there."
"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."
"In every possible way, [vibranium] will bite them in the ass in the future."
"Carbon fiber is a material that's absolutely revolutionized bike frame design."
"This is going to allow us to change how our materials look here for this rendered view."
"The true testament to everything we do is the little touches that become the big things."
"Everything we build is dependent on these materials; they are so significant that we've named entire periods of human history after them."
"When choosing materials for a particular application, engineers will often consult something called a material selection diagram."
"Mycelium foam is a great insulator, resilient, safe, strong, and biodegradable."
"Self-healing concrete repairs cracks using bacteria activated by rainwater or atmospheric moisture."
"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."
"Vibranium: not only the strongest metal on Earth, but also the key to the creation of Earth's most powerful civilization, Wakanda."
"Copper will rise and become the dominant and most important element in modern times."
"The mix of gallium and indium makes for a thermal conductivity of 73 watts per meter Kelvin, outclassing traditional pastes significantly."
"Chitins certainly do have super teeth made of super material."
"Sapphire is not scratchable and that is very untrue from a lot of points."
"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."
"While Vibranium is the strongest element on Earth, whatever makes up Thanos's sword is stronger."
"Tesla's application of first principles of innovation on the raw material mining and refining side."
"The potential for glass is where they're going to embed the antenna."
"What kind of metal was Thanos' sword made out of that it could crack and break Captain America's shield like this?"
"Impact characteristics and back face deformation are very important topics."
"The coding system allows us to define color, wear and tear, and patterns and materials."
"Consider how weathering and the elements will change the materials you model with."
"One of the critically important aspects of sustainable technology is to be a little bit more careful with the materials we use."
"This wire is mostly made of the wire itself... capable of handling higher heat, ethanol, alcohol, much stronger."
"So we're playing in the really fun area of the stress-strain curve."
"Google DeepMind's AI dreamed up 380,000 new materials, potentially useful for various applications."
"It's as strong as steel and much, much lighter."
"Understanding grain structure: diagnosing and anticipating potential problems."
"Material science is one of the most important yet uncelebrated branches of physics and engineering."
"There's way better energy conservation so even here at a glance look at how much brighter this one is as a piece of copper."
"Concrete is engineered rock, and there's a lot more to it than you think."
"Copper, aluminum, gold, and silver are great conductors of electricity."
"Concrete is indestructible. Make the whole f***ing bridge concrete then, duh."
"The carbon-fiber work is absolutely mesmerizing."
"If you're gonna make steel, you start with iron oxide. If you're gonna make aluminium, you start with aluminium oxide."
"Thousands of years ago, a meteorite made of vibranium, the strongest material in the universe, hit the African continent, affecting all plant life around that region."
"The materials that these craft are made of are clearly not of this Earth, they're sophisticatedly engineered, certainly not by humans."
"At very large scale we need tens maybe hundreds of millions of tons ultimately so the materials used to produce these batteries at a very large scale need to be common materials or you can't scale." - Elon Musk
"Not to over mix it because if the glass fiber gets over mixed you break down the fiber can filamer ties and birds nests causing workability in placement problems but more dangerously failure of the glass over long there's strength issues over time."
"It's just such a dense material that you end up with that happy result where you might hear a little something but it's not gonna wreck your day."
"Aluminium battery holds... a hybrid super capacitive battery."
"Silicon anodes offer an exciting alternative to the current graphite anodes used."
"If we step back for just a second, the reason I'm making this graphene is as a structural reinforcement."
"Most devices are made from cast iron, but cast steel is rather unusual."
"I just mixed up two-part conductive epoxy and dispensed it on to these electrode segments."
"It's a way to go from solid to liquid and liquid to solid without temperature change."
"The Blackbird was the first aircraft to use composite materials."
"What was kind of cool was that this exposed fresh bismuth the air, and as it slowly reacted to build that film of bismuth oxide, the color gradually changed."
"For macroscopic materials, it's no longer useful to specify the properties of a single electron or individual energy level."
"It's allowed the development of materials with unique thermal properties that can better handle the blistering temperatures of atmospheric re-entry, for example."
"The ability to carefully select each phase to optimize the properties of the material for a specific application is what makes composites so powerful."
"The distinction between thermosets and thermoplastics is a key factor in the difficulty of recycling wind turbine blades."
"High-strength steel alloys are commonly used due to their ability to withstand the high pressures and temperatures involved in their use."
"Material choice is crucial for strength and corrosion resistance."
"You can combine these natural polymers with synthetic polymers to create an even more stable emulsion."
"M-Cubed is aiming to hit a great magnetic materials with the semiconductor devices."
"...if they do appear in any of these materials they could even have technological applications particularly in quantum computers."
"...the bcc unit cell with 68 percent of its volume occupied is substantially more dense than the 52 percent of the simple cubic."
"...the fcc unit cell with 74 percent of its volume occupied is substantially more dense than the 52 percent of the simple cubic."
"...the hexagonal close-packed structure with the same maximum packing value as the face-centered cubic."
"We can model structures of complex molecules and materials at the atomic and molecular level."
"Understanding crystal structures allows us to predict their properties and behavior, aiding in various industrial applications."
"Certain materials under certain conditions allow electrons inside of those materials to flow completely free of any electrical resistance."
"This is a very experimental process, requiring a lot of optimization to get to a sweet spot of large crystals that are homogenous, have few defects and are also easy to handle."
"You can avoid the transformation of alpha to fe3c and instead what you form is a metastable intermediate structure called martensite."
"Mixing recycled plastic with plant-based plastics creates a new material that can't be recycled or composted."
"Kevlar: a polyamide used in protective clothing."
"ML can be used to learn from the outcomes of past experiments to suggest promising new materials."
"It feels a lot lighter than the ones we've been using. It's made out of some kind of new Nano ceramic technology that's supposed to minimize secondary damage."
"If we can make disordered rock salts work, we can actually use a much more diverse set of elements."
"We can extend our understanding to self-supported catalysts."
"It unlocks the possibility for you to print more exotic materials like nylon with carbon fiber or PEEK materials which require high temperature."
"Materials play a profoundly important role in how good this transmission line works."
"This is a project where we used carbon fiber reinforcement because the concrete shell is only three centimeters in thickness."
"Material X is like the USD of materials, it's this idea that we can have a material that's Universal."
"The main reason for this part is the measured shrink of different plastics."
"Thanks to the science of chemistry, we live in a world of splendid materials and substances which we use on an everyday basis."
"Superconducting materials are able to conduct electricity with zero resistance."
"This isn't paint; this is a coloring that is embedded into the aluminum."
"TPU is elastic and flexible, and you'll get different ratios of flexibility on the market."
"Understanding what materials to use to promote the reactions you want and suppress the ones you don't want is a huge part of battery research."
"I like to think of myself, and honestly all of you, as artificers, like materials wizards."
"The large shield-like case on this watch is not made of steel or gold; it's made of a newer, never-before-seen case material called tungsten carbide."
"Aluminium is used for overhead cables because it has low density and it's a good conductor of electricity."
"Alloys are mixtures of metals with other elements, formed by mixing the molten metals together and then allowing them to cool."
"The value of titanium is that it retains the same level of strength as steel but it's much lighter."
"The planar process established silicon as the main material for semiconductor electronics."
"Polycarbonate, it's a wonderful material used to make lightsaber blades."
"T700 is a grade of carbon fiber and it refers to the elemental composition of what's in the carbon fibers."
"We're gaining speed for a number of different ways: with aerodynamics, with new materials."
"Graphene provides the next generation of supercapacitors with an interesting array of improvements."
"Choosing the right material for a rocket's hull is indeed crucial as it needs to withstand extreme conditions during launch, flight, and re-entry."
"Materials scientists in general, anybody who works in materials, have much to contribute to solving energy challenges on the planet."
"You can make metallic glasses really tough; there's one with the toughness of 200, that's actually as tough as the toughest metals, like mild steel."
"There are certain polymers called elastomers that are stretchable."
"Polyvinyl Butyral (PVB) is a stretchable polymer, you can stretch it, it goes back in certain condition and also it is transparent."
"Starting from the sand, we can make a single crystal silicon."
"So at a high temperature, a material with a small gap—it's basically a conductor. And at low temperatures, it's basically an insulator. This is called a semiconductor."
"Graphene has been hailed as one of the most important breakthroughs in materials since the plastics revolution more than a century ago."
"The state of the art now for well-known SLM materials is that if you understand all those aspects, you can create a part with strength and stiffness that's comparable or in some cases even better than conventionally processed alloys of the same composition."
"Smart material is a material built from a group of layers."
"Metals have very well-defined crystal lattices that means that all of the atoms that make up a metal need to be in really specific places."
"Silica carbide is commonly used in non-wearable rocket engine parts, industrial furnaces, things where a really hard mineral that is really resistant to heat is needed."
"What titanium is, is lighter significantly, which means that for a given level of protection, you can use titanium instead of steel, and your overall result will be lighter."
"A crystal or a crystalline solid is a material where atoms or molecules are arranged in a very ordered microscopic structure."
"That is all that is 90 percent of materials with such a simple graph, we're able to get such a detailed and complex material that looks photorealistic."
"These are really special materials, these semiconductors."
"Metamaterials... are not existing in nature; it's really something that you create by engineering methods."
"This is exactly why we want to use metamaterials."
"If you have a point source passing through that material, you can form an image at the opposite side of it."
"As old as copper and brass are, they are still used today for a very wide variety of applications."
"Right now we tend to work with dead materials, while I envision a world in which we work together with organisms."
"Mild steel, in which carbon contains less than 0.3%, is ductile."
"High carbon steel, in which carbon contains greater than 0.7%, is brittle."
"Material characterization is essential because it greatly helps us understand the relationship between molecular structure, processing conditions, material properties, and eventually the product performance."
"Machine learning can be used to accelerate materials development and will be entirely pervasive across the sciences."
"A material that is optically transparent—that means it must have a very large band gap to let the light through, does interact with it, but is electrically conductive."
"We have an elastic region which is recoverable at some point which we call yielding."
"Plasticity is a shear process; it changes the shape of the body but not its volume."
"The proprietary organic fibers of the X10 exhibit several unique characteristics."
"Thermoplastics turn soft when heated, like a shampoo bottle."
"The next big revolution is going to come in materials."
"What is the probability of yielding for this alloy under these conditions?"
"If you need one in a million samples to fail only, all of a sudden it's actually better to use the tight and weak distribution."
"Materials are incredibly important."
"If we could design new materials, we could make more efficient batteries, maybe faster electronics."
"The most famous of these strongly correlated quantum materials are the high-temperature superconductors."
"This platform that we have created is called magic-angle graphene superlattices."
"These materials can be rotated arbitrarily on top of each other, something unprecedented."
"Thermoplastic composites are becoming popular due to higher toughness, higher production rate, and minimal environmental concerns."
"Composites are materials that are formed by adding two existing materials to exploit their mutual benefits."
"The electro spun fiber presents an interesting property as high surface volume to volume ratio leading to low density, high pore volume, and outstanding mechanical strength."
"Polymer nano composites exhibit superior property in mechanical, thermal, barrier, optical, etcetera, over conventional materials."
"The next generation of ceramic matrix composite are going to be... thermal barrier coating can be used for aerospace, cutting tools, so many applications."
"We need new materials, we need to come up with a new way to make computers which are more efficient."
"Polyethylene terephthalate is an extremely versatile polymer."
"In a few special materials, a non-zero Hall voltage has been measured even in the absence of a magnetic field."
"If you heat lunar soil to 1200 degrees celsius, it will melt and form a black material very comparable to concrete in its properties."
"We're reinventing materials, algae-based... it's a much bigger picture than just skis and snowboards."
"Vulcanization revolutionized rubber's properties, making it more durable and elastic."
"Foams are considered multiscale systems as they possess various levels of structural hierarchy."
"I was super impressed; these like polymer mags which you know you can argue against, but I think Magpul has proven that polymer is the way to go for durability."
"What people discovered is that there's a very very strong feature that shows up in glass that doesn't show up in kind of just randomly arranged atoms."
"You will be able to appreciate and understand materials much better if you think that they also behave like what we do."
"The understanding of this material behavior or materials will be very helpful for a mechanical engineer."
"K sub1c is a material property just like Young's modulus."
"When we get to the end of this tutorial, we will be using this feature extractor in order to extract the features of almost 4,000 materials."
"Japan has made significant advancements in the use of high strength steel and composite materials in bridge construction."
"Plastic deformation is permanent deformation; it means that the material won't ever bounce back or return to its original shape."
"Deformation does not have to be a bad thing."
"The idea of toughness in a material is basically how much a material can absorb energy before it actually fractures."
"The applied shear stress should be sufficient enough to start the motion of dislocations."
"The idea of strengthening is as we introduce more obstacles to the motion of dislocation."
"The viscoelastic nature of polymers gives rise to many applications, such as vibration control, shock-absorbing, soundproofing, and comfort for human use."
"Each material offers a pro and a con, and it just depends what is your priority, what position you're going to play on the field."
"Metals are shiny, malleable, and ductile solids; they are good conductors of heat and electricity."
"Most of these rare earth materials are not actually that rare."
"Be more realistic when it comes to looking at problems and finding materials that are the right solution for those problems."
"In a broad sense, the term composite materials refers to a solid matter composed of more than one component, wherein those components are in separate phases."
"The best materials are going to be nothing but the natural materials which are available."