| 摘要 |
<p>A family of materials wherein nanostructures and/or nanotubes are incorporated into a multi-component material arrangement, such as a metallic or ceramic alloy or composite/aggregate, producing a new material or metallic/ceramic alloy. The new mateial has significantly increased in strength, up to serveral thousands of times normal and perhaps substantially more, as well as significantly decreased weight. The new materials may be manufactured into a component where the nanostructure or nanostnicture reinforcement is incorporated into bulk and/or matrix material, or as a coating where the nanostructure or nanostructure reinforcemetn is incorporated into the coating or surface of a "normal susbtrate material. The nanostructures are incorporated into the mateiral structure either randomly or aligned, within grains (18), (14), or along or across (16), (12) grain boundaries.</p> |
