NBT: And you thought we were only good at basketball.

[Palatine]

Scientists Use DNA to Construct Material Lighter and Stronger Than Steel

Scientists have created a glass that uses DNA as its skeleton that far outclasses steel in strength and weight — at the nano-scale, at least.

futurism.com

 

[Khal Drogo]

Scientists Use DNA to Construct Material Lighter and Stronger Than Steel

Scientists have created a glass that uses DNA as its skeleton that far outclasses steel in strength and weight — at the nano-scale, at least.

futurism.com

Can Dr Lee clone 20 Walt Dropos

 

[CL82]

Scientists Use DNA to Construct Material Lighter and Stronger Than Steel

Scientists have created a glass that uses DNA as its skeleton that far outclasses steel in strength and weight — at the nano-scale, at least.

futurism.com

Very cool for the university to be at the forefront of this new process.

 

[Austin316]

Materials of this weight/strength I imagine would do well in the aero and space industry. Less load means less fuel to burn. Not sure how much lighter it is than the current raw materials but it’s still very cool and innovative!

 

[CTBasketball]

Materials of this weight/strength I imagine would do well in the aero and space industry. Less load means less fuel to burn. Not sure how much lighter it is than the current raw materials but it’s still very cool and innovative!

Give me some good properties to temperature and pressure exposure and I’d agree. But it’s a good start here.

 

[huskiesNhoos]

Materials of this weight/strength I imagine would do well in the aero and space industry. Less load means less fuel to burn. Not sure how much lighter it is than the current raw materials but it’s still very cool and innovative!

All depends...that article is not very informative - saying a material is "strong" tells you next to nothing about it...strong in tension? compression? high modulus? fatigue str? etc.

Still very cool as these materials always end up in some very high end applications (they're stupid expensive and almost always unable to be manufactured at scale) - and great visibility for the university.

 

[ColchVEGAS]

I have had the opportunity to tour the UConn advanced technology labs for work a few times and they are doing some very cool things up there. Many of which are for the government/military.