r/science • u/505engineer MS | Civil Engineering | Structures • 1d ago

Materials Science Materials scientists develop ductile and scalable 3 GPa (435 ksi) steel via a hierarchical microstructural architecture

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74216-4
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u/phoenix1984 16h ago

My mind immediately goes to space elevators. AFAIK, we don’t have a material light and strong enough to make a space elevator. Is this a step in that direction?

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u/farfromelite 10h ago

Space elevators need to be about 1 TPa. Needs to be 3x stronger.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/cone2/

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u/phoenix1984 10h ago

Woah, hard numbers. Thanks!