Airplanes and spacecraft are among things that can be built to be more structurally resilient by using a recently developed copper alloy. Kiran Solanki, a professor in the the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Fulton Schools, helped to create the new alloy. He explains how its chemical characteristics give it a combination of physical properties that enable materials to withstand very high stress from pressure and heat. That ability could open paths for industry and the military to create new materials to strengthen hypersonic and high-performance turbine engines. For more news of this advance, see previous posts on this page dated April 12 and March 28.

See also: New copper alloy achieves unprecedented high-temperature performance, Recycling Today, April 25