Here's another one that's already been used in golf clubs (Liquid Metal).
What makes any metal "weak" is the property to form crystalline "grains" when solidifying from a liquid (atoms align themselves into patterns). It is these grains that weaken metal and what all tensile and yield strength information is based on. (Fractures along the grain boundaries).
They are now able to cool the liquid metal to solid at such as fast rate that the metal does not form "grains" but remains in an "amorphous" form.
This means there are no more "weak" points in the metal structure. It can be crumpled up and will "spring" (not just slowing return) back to original shape.
You will see this in club faces in the next few years.
What makes any metal "weak" is the property to form crystalline "grains" when solidifying from a liquid (atoms align themselves into patterns). It is these grains that weaken metal and what all tensile and yield strength information is based on. (Fractures along the grain boundaries).
They are now able to cool the liquid metal to solid at such as fast rate that the metal does not form "grains" but remains in an "amorphous" form.
This means there are no more "weak" points in the metal structure. It can be crumpled up and will "spring" (not just slowing return) back to original shape.
You will see this in club faces in the next few years.