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http://www.gizmag.com/new-material-steel-plastic/18013/

 

Apparently, it is now possible to combine the strength of metals with the flexibility of plastics. However, these new materials still require large amounts of expensives metals for synthesis...even so, might be a useful intermediate along the way to developing organic polymers with the same strength properties.

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Graphene was a fantastic discovery - no big investment, no expectation, just curiosity? A business wouldn't necessarily have funded the research for graphene, but it's big business now.

 

Is it a rare thing now, the permission and the time to be curious, what with the budget stick hitting us all?

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Is it a rare thing now, the permission and the time to be curious, what with the budget stick hitting us all?

Designers of educational methods should come up with ways to empower people who have been excluded from academic science due to budgeting restrictions to contribute to R&D. Many paying jobs require very little mental effort, leaving the mind free for other activities - why not harness creativity wasted in workplaces for science and engineering if the workers have the interest and ability?

 

 

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http://www.gizmag.com/new-material-steel-plastic/18013/

 

Apparently, it is now possible to combine the strength of metals with the flexibility of plastics. However, these new materials still require large amounts of expensives metals for synthesis...even so, might be a useful intermediate along the way to developing organic polymers with the same strength properties.

 

Horza, your organo-centrism is showing :P. Maybe they will be useful intermediates on the way to smart base metal materials ;). Just kidding, interesting article. I gotta take my opportunities to poke at you organic guys.

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