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Take a walk through some of the different materials and applications that make modern products lighter and more robust, such as plastics, composites, rubbers, elastomers, and metals.

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Copper
Six Reasons Copper Demand is Set to Soar
Jul 27, 2018
The estimated global market for copper in 2023 is about $172 billion, according to analysts at Matmatch, a materials database company in Germany. They have determined that demand for copper is on a major upswing, and as more applications for it...
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Elon Musk’s Boring Future of Fast Transportation!
Jun 28, 2018
Matmatch, an online materials sourcing database, helps us take a deeper look into Elon Musk’s Boring Company—and what the value of material selection is when designing wear and corrosion resistant tunneling tools.
Helium-3
Researchers Devise a Long-Sought Workaround to Helium-3 Shortage
Jun 25, 2018
Engineers rely on neutrons to peer inside advanced materials and devices such as fuel cells to better understand and improve them. But a critical shortage of a rare form of helium (helium-3) used for detecting neutrons, which are difficult to spot...
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Army and DoE Researchers Develop TNT Replacement
Jun 22, 2018
TNT (aka trinitrotoluene) was first prepared in 1863 by German chemist Julius Wilbrand, but its full potential as an explosive wasn’t discovered until 1891. It has been in use as a munitions explosive since 1902. But the Environmental Protection...
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