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Top Ten Strongest Materials

Kevlar​
Kevlar​

Kevlar can be used as an acoustic core on bows for string instruments. Kevlar's physical properties provide strength, flexibility, and stability for the bow's user. To date, the only manufacturer of this type of bow is CodaBow.

Diamond​
Diamond​

What is the world's strongest material? ... There are quite a few other materials that have hardnesses comparable or slightly less than diamond. One such material ...

source: quora.com
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Boron Nitride​
Boron Nitride​

Wurtzite Boron Nitride is very similar to diamond on a structural level, but while diamonds are produced from carbon under pressure over time, wurtzite boron nitride (WBN) is born from the incredible heat and pressure produced during volcanic eruptions.

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Lonsdaleite​
Lonsdaleite​

The second, the mineral lonsdaleite, or hexagonal diamond is made from carbon atoms just like diamond, but they are arranged in a different shape. Only small amounts of wurtzite boron nitride and lonsdaleite exist naturally or have been made in the lab, so until now no one had realised their superior strength.

Ultra-High-​Molecular-Weight Polyethylene​
Ultra-High-​Molecular-Weight Polyethylene​

Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE, UHMW) is a subset of the thermoplastic polyethylene. Also known as high-modulus polyethylene, (HMPE), it has extremely long chains, with a molecular mass usually between 3.5 and 7.5 million amu.

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Amorphous ​Metal​
Amorphous ​Metal​

The strongest metals that exist are amorphous metals. A lot of these alloys have higher fracture strength than maraging steel. Some alloys reach as high as 5000 Mpa.

source: quora.com
Buckypaper​
Buckypaper​

Do you know the 10 strongest materials known to man? Buckypaper, Lonsdaleite, and how these 10 stack up against Transmet's own Rapidly Solidified Metals.

source: transmet.com
Graphene​
Graphene​

Graphene remains the strongest material ever measured and, as Professor Hone once put it, so strong that "it would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap.”

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Steel​
Steel​

Impact strength is the ability of a material to resist impact without shattering. Although diamond scores 10 ion the Moh's scale, it can shatter if struck by a hammer. Steel isn't as hard as diamond, but you can't shatter it easily.

source: sciencing.com
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Spider Silk​
Spider Silk​

At best, spider silk might compare to steel when it comes to tensile strength, which is the largest stress that a material can withstand before breaking. For one variety of spider silk the value of tensile strength is just above 1 GPa, a unit of measuring force per unit area.

source: phys.org