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The Super Steel project led by Professor Huang Mingxin at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), with collaborators at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), has made an important breakthrough in its new steel material to greatly enhance its fracture resistance while maintaining super strong in strength for advanced industrial applications. 

The findings have recently been published in Science.

Together with earlier breakthroughs made by Professor Huang's team, the new super steel material can now attain excellent performance in all three metallic properties - ductility (ability to extend and elongate into different forms and structures), strength (deformation resistance) and toughness (fracture resistance) - at an unprecedented high-level not reached by any steel materials before.

Several patents have been filed. The team has been liaising with industrial partners to generate prototypes of high-strength bridge cable, bullet proof vest and car spring with the super steel for further tests and trials to be conducted.

A media briefing with demonstrations on the super steel will be held tomorrow. Details are below.

Date:   May 12, 2020 (Tuesday)
Time and Venue: 
11:00 am  Press briefing
Room 737, Conference Room of Faculty of Engineering, 7th Floor, Haking Wong Building, Main Campus, Pokfulam Road, HKU

11:30 am  Demonstrations and photo-taking
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Room 112, 1st Floor, Haking Wong Building, Main Campus, Pokfulam Road, HKU

Speakers:
Professor Mingxin HUANG, Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU
Miss. Li LIU, Ph.D student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU

Note: As a precautionary measure under Covid-19, attendees please wear a surgical mask during the course of the event.

Media enquiry:
Ms Celia Lee, Faculty of Engineering, HKU (Tel: 3917 8519; Email: leecelia@hku.hk)
Miss Bonnie Tsang, Faculty of Engineering, HKU (Tel: 3917 1924; Email: bonniepy@hku.hk)