Smartphone Cases Review: 50 Times Harder Than Plastic, Nearly 10 Times Harder Than Aluminum, And Almost Three Times The Hardness Of Steel!

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BY Gem C Dec 06, 2014 03:14 AM EST

Fresh out of the shell, A case not on the heavy side: lightweight, thin, harder than steel and as easy to mold as a plastic. Great catch! But, You can't purchase it just yet. (Oh, no!)

Jan Schroers, who is a mechanical engineering and material science teacher at Yale University have developed the case's technology in his lab and hope for it to reach masses of people.

"This material is 50 times harder than plastic, nearly 10 times harder than aluminum, and almost three times the hardness of steel," Schroers said. "It's awesome."

Electronic casings, to be a little bit specific, have been identified as a potential application to the strong-yet-pliable materials, Yet previous trials at finding a shaping procedures have failed.

SUPERCOOLED LIQUID

Jan Schroers have spent much time during the previous decade attempting to pursue a different approach to shape complex geometries exactly. Instead of melting the BMG material down and coercing it into a mold a very immense degree of temperature, He have utilized a unique and supercool material that is situated on a liquid state, in which BMG loses the compression and sufficiently allow the material for better molding,

With this procedure being precisely-done, BMG's can be shaped like real plastics without requiring vast amounts of energy. By the way, The procedure is called "thermoplastic forming".

From there, Schroers concentrated on BMG production in sheets, The way, he reasonably blurted out is the most conducive and practical.

"Developing a fabrication method for BMG sheets has been extremely difficult because it requires a fundamentally different process," Schroers explained thoroughly "We succeeded recently, with a surprisingly versatile process that is fast, precise, and economical."