A new nanocomposite material has been developed exhibiting hundreds of times greater strength than pure metals. Professor Seung Min Han and Yoo Sung Jeong (Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water, and Sustainability (EEWS)) and Professor Seok Woo Jeon (Department of Material Science and Engineering) have developed a composite nanomaterial.
The nanomaterial consists of graphene inserted in copper and nickel and exhibits strengths 500 times and 180 times, respectively, greater than that of pure metals. The result of the research effort was published in Nature Communications. Graphene displays strengths 200 times greater than that of steel, is stretchable, and is flexible.
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