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>it is made from a tightly packed array of needle-like crystals which have a strength-to-weight ratio that is eight times better than stainless steel. That's a
by mistercow 14y ago
>it is made from a tightly packed array of needle-like crystals which have a strength-to-weight ratio that is eight times better than stainless steel.
That's a pretty useless thing to say. What kind of strength? Tensile? Shear? Yield?
Maybe this figure is buried somewhere in the paper they linked to, but not in any easy to find place.
- soperj 14y agoLooks like they're probably talking about Tensile strength. (http://www.celluforce.com/en/product_properties.php http://www.celluforce.com/en/product_properties.php)
- tocomment 14y agoDoes that put us in space elevator territory?
- soperj 14y agoAccording to this(http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com/?p=1125 http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com/?p=1125), no not yet.
- ftwinnovations 14y agoNo, at the end of the article they specifically say that they had previously incorrectly said it was tensile strength.