titanium, aluminum, or other alloys. According to Rabiei, CMF stands out as the strongest metal foam, even though it’s not the first of its kind. The evidence is compelling. In a 2019 study ...

Over a decade ago, engineer Afsaneh Rabiei of North Carolina State University invented Composite Metal Foam (CMF)—a material made of hollow metal “bubbles” embedded in steel, titanium ...

with potential fuel savings of 80 liters per year for every kilogram of titanium replaced in aircraft. Technical Achievement: The research team used an innovative machine learning approach to ...