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Title should be, "MIT Engineers Create New Material Stronger Than Steel, Light as Plastic, and More Expensive than Gold"
by cbracketdash 4y ago
Title should be, "MIT Engineers Create New Material Stronger Than Steel, Light as Plastic, and More Expensive than Gold"
- Dlanv 4y agoFor now. It sounds like the process to manufacture it could scale pretty well though. This could be just the beginning of a new class of material
- robbedpeter 4y agoMelamine is cheap as hell. The lab apparatus they used is expensive but this process is really scalable. A stack of alternating graphene and layers of this material would be interesting - we're starting to get into mass produced molecular level materials engineering.
- high_byte 4y agoand the first iphone cost about... idk, $10m in R&D?