World's lightest metallic material comes into being in Xi'an
2017-03-14 17:53:55 [Print]
Xi’an Jiaotong University declared recently that it has produced the world’s lightest metallic material
Such definitive advantages have made the material widely used in both military and civilian industries including aerospace, military and weapon production, electronic products, petrochemical, machinery, medicine instruments, outdoor equipment and so on. The material had been used in China’s first monitoring satellite on global carbon dioxide emission, enabling the satellite to cut both weight and launching costs sharply while significantly increase its effective load.
. Named new-type magnesium-lithium alloy, the material boasts excellent mechanical properties such as low density, high specific stiffness and high specific strength, excellent high damping capacities such as shock-proof and de-noising functions, as well as anti-radiation and anti-electromagnetic interference . Viewed as a material spearheading the technological development in magnesium alloy, magnesium-lithium alloy has earned itself a reputation as the most environmentally friend metallic material in the future. Such definitive advantages have made the material widely used in both military and civilian industries including aerospace, military and weapon production, electronic products, petrochemical, machinery, medicine instruments, outdoor equipment and so on. The material had been used in China’s first monitoring satellite on global carbon dioxide emission, enabling the satellite to cut both weight and launching costs sharply while significantly increase its effective load.