Strong as steel, light as foam: High-performance, nano-architected materials Date: January 24, 2025 Source: University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering Summary: Researchers have ...

Nano-architected materials are made of tiny building blocks or repeating units measuring a few hundred nanometers in size—it would take more than 100 of them patterned in a row to reach the ...

News Release 24-Jan-2025 Strong as steel, light as foam: Machine learning and nano-3D printing produce breakthrough high-performance, nano-architected materials ...

More information: Wenjie Zhou et al, 3D polycatenated architected materials, Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adr9713 Sameh Tawfick et al, Not-so-fragile matter, Science (2025).

"We hope that these new material designs will eventually lead to ultra-light weight components in aerospace applications, such as planes, helicopters and spacecraft that can reduce fuel demands ...

Reimagining Chain Mail: Caltech's 3D Architected Materials That Adapt and Protect (VIDEO) California Institute of Technology Caption ...

These materials are composed of tiny building blocks, or repeating units, measuring just a few hundred nanometers – so small that over 100 lined up would barely match the thickness of a human hair.

Jiazhen Leng, Hang Xu, Megan Schaenzer, Minh Quan Pham, Genevieve Bourgeois, Ali Shanian, Damiano Pasini, Generalized tessellations of superellipitcal voids in low porosity architected materials for ...

Jan 25, 2025 Strong as steel, light as foam: Machine learning and nano-3D printing create breakthrough nano-architected materials (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of ...