Israeli nanotechnologists create the most durable synthetic material in world

Israeli nanotechnologists from Tel Aviv University, the University of Ben-Gurion and Weizmann Institute have developed the most durable artificial material in the world, superior to steel for strength while being significantly lighter. New material, which is cheap to produce and environmentally friendly, has a wide range of application in prosthesis, automotive industry, space technology and military industry.

Professor Ehud Gazit, Dr. Leahy Adler-Abramovich, and Inbal Yanai from Tel Aviv University, Dr. Itay Ruso and Nick Cole of the Weizmann Institute, and Professor David Barley and Professor Ronnie Schenk from the University of Ben-Gurion were involved in the work on the creation of new material.

To create the material scientists used dipeptides - organic compounds consisting of two amino acid residues of a peptide bond. The results were published recently in a major chemical magazine Angewandte Chemie.


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