For reference, most commercial titanium alloys top out at around 1,000 MPa. This is also the highest specific strength for any other 3D-printed metal alloy, the team says.

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Described in the journal Science Advances, the breakthrough was made by a team led by Emilia Morosan from Rice University. The alloy is described as being four times stronger than pure titanium ...

The designed alloy is also superelastic across a much broader range of temperatures (4.2–400 kelvin) than most other superelastic alloys (data not shown; Adapted from Fig. 1b of ref. 1).

Manufacturers have used Grade 5 titanium in everything from sporting equipment to aircraft turbines. During the event, Yang stated that Grade 5 titanium is, "an alloy that has even higher tensile ...