MIT has developed a revolutionary new material!

A state-of-the-art material that is twice as hard as steel, but 1/6 the weight, and is relatively easy to produce, making it easy to mass-produce
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There is no doubt that this is of course a revolutionary material, and it is even said that this material may change the world today
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However, this material is so ideal that many people question its authenticity
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In a study published in the journal Nature on February 2, 2022 (titled Irreversible synthesis of an ultrastrong two-dimensional polymeric material), researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a new revolutionary material
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They used the properties of a compound called melamine: under the right conditions, these monomers can grow in two dimensions, forming disks that stack on top of each other, held together by hydrogen bonds between the layers, and the structure becomes very stable and strong, resulting in a two-dimensional sheet known as polyamide
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Studies have shown that the material has a modulus of elasticity four to six times greater than bulletproof glass, and its yield strength, or the force required to break the material, is twice that of steel, but only one-sixth as dense
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More critically, in sheet-like molecular planes, allowing molecules to hook themselves together in two dimensions, this mechanism can occur spontaneously in solution, allowing for easy spin-coating of thin films precisely because it can be used in solution.
It self-assembles in medium, so it is possible to mass-produce very strong but extremely thin materials by simply increasing the number of starting materials
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This means that this material is likely to be mass-produced on a large scale.
Once mass-produced, it can be used in many product fields, such as automobiles, aviation, construction, bulletproof, etc.
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If this material can be mass-produced, many industries will be disrupted in the future

Just imagine, if a material is produced in the future, it is twice as hard as steel, but as light as plastic, then it can be made into body armor, which can be used in the armed forces or the police; in addition, it can be used to make rockets It will greatly reduce the weight of the rocket and reduce the cost of launching
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Automobiles, it will be an inevitable trend for new energy vehicles to replace traditional fuel vehicles in the future.
Many countries have made plans to phase out traditional fuel vehicles and stop the sales of fuel vehicles after 2035.
At that time, only sales of fuel vehicles will be available in the market.
New energy vehicles
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At present, there are several factors affecting the popularity of new energy vehicles, such as charging efficiency, cruising range and so on
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In order to improve the cruising range of new energy vehicles, in addition to solving the problem from the battery, the body material is also an important breakthrough point.
If there is a material that is harder than steel but 6 times lighter than steel in the future, it can be applied to new energy vehicles.
This will greatly reduce the weight of the new energy vehicle itself, thereby reducing energy consumption, which can improve the cruising range of the new energy vehicle
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Of course, this kind of change is not only in the automotive industry, it will also have a great impact on those industries that require harder and lighter materials
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The first author who invented this revolutionary material is a Chinese scientist

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is really good at material science research, and we also sigh that this material is indeed powerful enough, and one of the authors who developed this material is actually a Chinese scientist
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The study comes from a team led by MIT chemical engineering professor Michael Strano, and the lead author is postdoc Yuwen Zeng
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