The World's Most Elastic Material

Recently scientists succeeded in creating the most elastic material. This Material can stretch up to 20 times its original length without loose or damaged. Materials created included hidrogel.

Hidrogel commonplace (kind of a partikelnya in the dispersed hidrogel water) can only extend a few times its original length. Rubber can only be stretched 5-6 times its original length. However, this time the scientists made hydrogen is different.

This time made with Hidrogel material alginat, poliakrilamida, and water. The test has been carried out by means of peregang and dropped the ball at the top of the steel material shows that the latest time hidrogel is much more elastic.

Hidrogel that exist today can be broken by force of 10 Joules per square meter. Contact lenses made in the 1960s will be broken in the style of a couple hundred Joules per square meter. Human cartilage will be broken by force of 1,000 Joules per square meter.

"In our materials, the energy required to break it was 10,000 Joules per square metre," said Zhigang Suo from Harvard University, the makers of super-elastic material, such as quoted Livescience.

This discovery was great. In addition to being able to make a super-elastic material, investigations are also great because the actual manufacture of elastic material instead of main. Scientists originally wanted to make the strongest material, though it also created powerful hidrogel.

With elastisitasnya, the scientists argued that the material is suitable for basic materials of artificial cartilage. Artificial cartilage serves arthritis sufferers troubleshooting, as well as diseases of bone and other sensi.

Suo outlines, elastic materials made this can indeed lose elastisitasnya. However, if it happens because that stretch beyond the elastic limit, nature can be returned with the material heats up again in the temperature of 80 degrees Celsius.

This discovery, published in the journal Nature published on Thursday (6/9/2012).