Nickel can be as strong as titanium and the density of water, according to a paper in Nature Scientific Reports. ‘High strength metallic wood from nanostructured nickel inverse opal materials‘ describes a material whose strength comes from nickel struts (as narrow as 17nm) whose local yield strength is 8GPa – 4x that of bulk nickel. According to …
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