strength of materials

Myxine fish. Photo: f Andra Zommers and Douglas Fudge, in: Will hagfish yield the fibers of the future?, PNAS, 2016.

Will a deep-sea fish affect the future of the textile industry?

A mantis-type mantis in the lab at UC RIVERSIDE

Extra strong materials inspired by snails

Scanning electron micrograph of nano bricks of the material nacre Credit: F. Heinemann; Wikimedia Creative Commons License.

Creating weak points to strengthen materials

Checking loads on a vehicle during an accident using finite element software

Actually it's easy…

Prof. Daniel Rittel. Photo: Technion

Research Most dental implants crack over the years

Fish scales, close-up. Photo: shutterstock

Dandruff: not a problem but a solution

Rolls of aluminum sheets. Photo: shutterstock

Using ultrasonic waves to produce aluminum alloys

Environmentally friendly concrete - like the one used by the Romans

An illustration of the strength of a quilted graphene sheet. Image: Columbia University

Even when damaged - graphene is still the strongest material

The triple helical structure of collagen. From Wikimedia

Lighter, stronger, stiffer

Right: Prof. Daniel Wagner and Dr. Benny Bar-On. Self-organized. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Imitation with teeth

A form of coal stronger than a diamond. Photo: Stanford University

A new form of carbon similar to diamond

A polymer that repairs itself with the help of light

Self-healing polymeric material

Engineered material or metamaterial. From Wikipedia

Electromagnetic General Relativity: Traveling with Metamaterials to Space

Scanning electron microscope photograph of guanine plaques from a silver spider. In the upper photo we can see a sandwich-like structure, in which a layer of non-crystalline guanine (marked by an arrow) is between two plates of crystalline guanine. Weizmann Institute photo

The color of the silver

Prof. Itamar Procacia

fault line

A scientist at the Fernhofer Institute in Germany examines hydrogen against various substances. Photo: Fernhauper Institute

Do the metal components in hydrogen engines break down?

Comparison of a normal ceramic material (on the left) and a material treated with a method developed at the University of North Carolina

Electric fields to improve the production process of ceramic materials

Titanium Origami Crane. Photo: University of Illinois

Making complex structures by printed origami

Shell

Synthetic shells made of chalk and polymer

Spaghetti breaking experiment in the lab of Michael Higley and Andrew Belmonte. Photo courtesy of the researchers

Why does dry spaghetti break into more than 2 pieces?

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Muscle proteins - the strongest substances in nature

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Metals with diamonds

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Strange simple matter - preparation of a supersolid by extremely cold gas atoms

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

the very thing

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

New ceramic materials imitate the mother-of-pearl oyster

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A new process ensures larger and better quality diamond crystals

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Preparation of nanoparticles with maximum strength

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Self-repairing cracks - composite materials of the next generation

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The self-healing substance

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

On the origins of squids and smart materials

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Boeing 787 - the first composite plane

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

signs of breakage