Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter::Regular glass is brittle and fragile. But pure glass coated on DNA is a different beast entirely.
“And so we drew Superman instead. Same diff.”
Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter
Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/dna-glass-stronger-steel/
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RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 year ago
mint_tamas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“So midjourney came up with this BS image and we didn’t even care to look at it closely”
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Technically steel does contain iron, I guess.
HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Damn who would have thought semen made a good binder with glass 👀
shasta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Finally, a market for my skills
Lophostemon@aussie.zone 1 year ago
‘Star Wars Inspired Laser Sword’
(Body copy:) Never gonna happen but someone was ‘inspired’ by it.
qooqie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I always hear about these new amazing materials. While they’re great concepts they’re usually held back by how crazy expensive they are to produce. I’m betting this falls into that bin
DingoBilly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep. As soon as you read the title you know it’s useless.
Either too expensive, or it only works at a microscopic level but doesn’t scale, or just doesn’t actually work.
It’s like all the cancer cures you hear about that unfortunstely mostly don’t pan out. Just clickbait headlines.
db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
That one is worse than you think. More than one viable cancer cure was destroyed by stock market shenanigans - bad actors short sell the company in to the ground, take over the board, destroy what’s left of the company, sell off what they can piecemeal while trashing the rest, and they do it that way only because they don’t have to pay back those shorted stocks with no company anymore, they don’t at all care what the company is doing only that they can parasitize it. It’s twisted as hell.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
One thing to always have in mind is that the poor researchers making these discoveries are victims too. They spend months, if not years researching and when they publish their research, some random tech website make a clickbait article about it. Usually by taking a sentences out of context and using hyperbole.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
A lot of cancer stuff isn’t actually a cure, and if it is it’s only for a specific type of cancer and the success rate is never a headline item.
So you read a headline that says “cure of cancer” which is conveniently leaving out “for specific cancer abc in these specific circumstances with a success rate of 58%”
There’s never really been a true “cure for all cancer 100% success rate” found, and anyone who claims otherwise is misunderstanding the science being discussed.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Aluminum was used as the cap to the Washington monument because it was worth so much…
Takes a while to make stuff cheap
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It could also be that the material is just not all that special. “Stronger than steel” is a very easy goal to achieve. Lighter is easy too. Now pair those two with higher fracture toughness, and you have something worth talking about.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Recovering machinist here, and I agree. The other thing that annoys me about “StRoNgEr ThAn StEeL” is that there is a wide variety of different types of steel, all with different strength charachteristics. Some types of steel are 5x stronger than other types of steel.
Same thing for Ford’s “Military grade” aluminum. The truck bodies are made out of 5052 and 6061 depending on how it’s shaped. Those are literally the most common grades of aluminum. And that’s what you’d make a truck body out of, but its funny.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Yeah articles talking about them usually say something about how “in 10 to 20 years it’ll be ready for mass production!” and then you never hear about them again.