Apple off my eyes
I hope they are patenting all these creations before Steve J...oh-errrr
Yale University boffins have devised a new way of identifying super strong metallic glass alloys that will "drastically" increase the discovery rate of the "potentially revolutionary" materials. Scientists are currently rushing to classify various complex alloys known as bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) from a a "vast …
Yes, you are.
While I was having a crap yesterday, I had an idea about using nanotubes to make a new class of super-light, super-dense batteries. I must check to see if I'm a millionaire by now.
This may come as a surprise, so sit down: The mental and physical effort required to conceive an idea isn't even a tiny fraction of the effort needed to bring it to reality.
Curious what would make it a finer material for a driver than Titanium? Given that the USGA and R&A limit both the coefficient of restitution of the driver face, as well as the overall volume of the head, it doesn't seem as though there's any room for more advanced materials to improve over the current state of the art.
The core problem is not that bad. for a 3 element alloy (94 elements)^3
But now multiply the percentages to give (94 * 100)^3
Is is a physical strategy?
Is it a clever hack on the quantum mechanical calculation algorithm?
Who knows.
And BTW yes I think you could find some Merkins who'd pay $1000/club.partly because a) they really want to play good golf and b) Because they can.
Of course if that discovery process was skewed to start with the cheaper elements.....
I can't believe they will go manually through every possible combination.
With normal alloys you usually step through enough points to identify the key transitions and then draw a phase diagram by interpolation. You can then roughly predict properties of specific alloys by placing them on the diagram.
For metallic glass they use additional analytics to predict Glass Forming Range, which presumably can then be tested with a few additional data points...
I was under the impression materials science had stepped out of the foundry and into computer modelling. In the way Dmitri Mendeleev managed to accurately predict the properties of yet to be discovered elements way back in 1875, I would have thought our ability to combine elements and molecules in a computer model and assess their qualities would be here by now. Obviously I am wrong, but what on Earth have these muppets been up to for the last century, if they haven't come to some defining conclusion about how matter interferes with each other and coded that into a ZX Spectrum.
Massively impressed by their engineering skills, but come on, let's get all 21st century on this one.
I throw down my gauntlet and challenge the scientific community to get their act together and come up with a program that allows me to enter a list of properties that I desire in a material and it churns out a list of credible molecular combinations that meet that specification. I guess this will need the power of quantum computing, but for Christ's sake get a move on will you, the Earth is being consumed to make substandard inefficient crap and we desperately need an intelligent way forward.
I'll buy the winner a beer.
P.S. After I buy AC one for beating me to it. I shouldn't have had a coffee break.
They make up graded alloy strips where one or more of the elements varies along the length.
The strip is then laid on top of what looks like a plate with holes in it. At this point I'd guess they put the whole lot in a furnace and connect it to a high pressure supply.
They then try to blow bubbles with the metal.
Biggest bubble seems to win.
BTW I suspect the problem with quantum chemical tests is 1 simulation will take hours and the effect is (I suspect) non linear, so extrapolation does not work.