Ceramics The Wonder Materisal
Carbon carbon covalent bonds in carbon fibers and ionic bonds in ceramics.
Ceramics the wonder materisal. It was invented by british hairdresser and amateur chemist maurice ward 1933 2011 during the 1970s and 1980s and received significant publicity after coverage of the material aired in 1990 on the bbc science and technology show tomorrow s world. The ceramic they experimented with was silicon nitride a material much admired in the aerospace industry. To manipulate manufacture and recycle these materials these bonds must be broken and reformed which requires high. The name starlite was coined by ward s.
There s quite a big difference between age old general purpose. Scientists at brown university are reporting a new material that overcomes some of the key hurdles of solid state batteries using a delicate mix of ceramics and the wonder material graphene to. December 12 2019 bullet. Starlite is an intumescent material claimed to be able to withstand and insulate from extreme heat.
Wonder material grows on trees.