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Can a metal with properties like MCU Vibranium be made in real life?

Giuseppe Frisella
3 min readSep 9, 2023

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A metal like Vibranium should be able to absorb vibrations, have incredible shock resistance and great elasticity.

It should be a highly workable and hardenable alloy that absorbs energy by storing it within the bonds of the molecules that make it up.

Many materials are hardened by work, becoming tough as they are deformed. Manganese steel is an example of this. It can harden in the areas subject to stress and is used to produce anti-drill plates for vaults or ballistic plates.

So, to simulate impact resistance and elasticity one could use graphene, or one of its stronger allotropes, reinforced by the hardest alloy one can produce.

Another property of graphene that would be useful to us is that it possesses a very high speed of sound, which means that impacts would be distributed very quickly over the entire structure, rather than only affecting the point of impact.

However, some materials that have damping properties, i.e. anti-vibration properties, are very deficient in terms of mechanical properties. In fact, it is extremely difficult to obtain a material with all the previous properties together with the ability to resist vibrations. This is much more easily achieved with an active damping element, such as a suspension, but…

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Giuseppe Frisella
Giuseppe Frisella

Written by Giuseppe Frisella

I'm a curious person and I'm on Medium mainly to read and share thoughts and knowledge. I love science, especially physics and evolutionary biology.

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