{"id":1145,"date":"2013-10-14T08:57:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T08:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2013-10-18T21:11:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T21:11:22","slug":"tough-strong-nanofibers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/tough-strong-nanofibers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough, Strong Nanofibers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imageBlock\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/research-highlights\/20130423dzenis1_sm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1144\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-post-feature wp-image-1144\" alt=\"20130423Dzenis1_SM\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130423Dzenis1_SM-900x600.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130423Dzenis1_SM-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130423Dzenis1_SM-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>UNL materials engineers have developed a structural nanofiber that is both strong and tough \u2012 two properties once thought mutually exclusive \u2012 that could transform everything from airplanes and bridges to body armor and bicycles. Most advanced fibers are strong, but can break relatively easily because they lack toughness. To compensate, engineers use more material, which makes airplanes and other products heavier. Yuris Dzenis and colleagues created an exceptionally thin nanofiber and found that by making it even thinner, it became both stronger and tougher. Tougher structural materials would allow products to be both lightweight and safe, said Dzenis, R. Vernon McBroom Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. Their findings were featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/nn400028p\" target=\"_blank\"><em>ACS Nano<\/em><\/a>. The National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and a U.S. Army Research Office Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative grant fund this research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNL materials engineers have developed a structural nanofiber that is both strong and tough \u2012 two properties once thought mutually exclusive \u2012 that could transform everything from airplanes and bridges to body armor and bicycles. Most advanced fibers are strong, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/tough-strong-nanofibers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[591,592,589,40,593,590],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-highlights","tag-acs-nano","tag-air-force-office-of-scientific-research","tag-nanofibers","tag-national-science-foundation","tag-u-s-army-research-office","tag-yuris-dzenis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}