Shantanu Chaudhari
Department of Textile
Technology
Veermata Jijabai
Technological Institute Mumbai, India
A superheroes Fiction or a future Reality?
In
recent times the gap between fiction to reality has reduced drastically. Few
things that we could just imagine well before time is a reality now. Similarly,
I have seen some kinds of a reel things in some movies in last few years and
the only question that came in my mind is can this happen in real life?
No one can answer
this question perfectly. Before Wright brother’s
invention of world’s first
aeroplane, human flying was just a myth. But today it’s a reality. Similarly,
we have seen such kind of things in some latest superheroes movies that can be
a reality.
Let’s take some
examples from the popular MCU movies.
Iron Man Suit:
Iron
man was the first movie of MCU series which marked a start of a new fantastic
and mind-blowing universe which afterward brook many records in film industry.
If you carefully observe evolution of Iron man suit, in very first movie that came in year 2008 it was just a metal suit but afterwards in Avengers Infinity
War that came in year 2018 it also included Nano technological aspects.
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Fig-Iron Man |
Can
this really happen? Would we able to see a real iron man flying over our head?
The answer is simple
but tricky: Who knows!
But some inventors
have started using
this idea to develop an iron man like suit. For example, British inventor and
co-founder of Gravity company Richard Browning have develop a suit called
Daedalus Mark 1. His suit holds Guinness World Record for ‘Fastest speed in
body-controlled jet engine powered suit.’
Browning
has been dubbed as Real Iron Man by several media outlets around the world.
You want to be an Iron Man, purchase this suit which cost £340,000 only!
Vibranium:
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Black Panther |
In the Marvel comics Vibranium is a metal found in the mineral rich
country of Wakanda which is headed by a Black Panther. This metal started
growing in Wakanda because of a meteoroid made of Vibranium struck on the
ground of Wakanda many years ago. This element was primarily used in Captain
America’s shield and in Black Panther
Suit.
So does such a kind of element is there? Would
we able to see Captain America or say Captain India! having a vibranium shield?
Does Black Panther Suit exist?
Again, I would like to give same answer: Who
Knows
The
potential material that can be compared to Vibranium is Graphene. It is strong, light weight and has the potential to save energy
just like we saw in Black
panther movie.
Hyperloop
Transportation Technologies (HTT) says that they have developed a new combination
of materials to protect its high-speed pods. They are calling this material as
Vibranium only!
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Fig-Graphene Technology |
HTT
has developed this material with the help of Slovakian Researchers. They have
use base of carbon fibre, same element that is used in synthesis of Graphene.
Really, we humans
still don’t have 100% information about carbon element.
It’s mine personal favourite element. By only changing its hybridization
state, we can change full characteristics of carbon only if we could do it. Carbon can come in
different form like Hard, Shinny
and a bad conductor of electricity and Heat in case of Diamond or Brittle, Smooth and
a Good conductor of electricity in the case
of Graphite. You read it right. Both Diamond and Graphite are allotropes of carbon but has totally different
characteristics. Carbon in case of Diamond Hybridizes in sp3 state
while in Graphite it Hybridizes in sp2 state.
Wakanda Protective
Shield:
In the movie Avengers Infinity War, we have seen that all the Wakanda is
covered and protected by a security shield. Also, all of the tribe warriors
form a protective shield just bringing cloth in front of them.
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Protective Shield Formed with Cloth (PC- Geektraynt) |
I
know here that I am talking about a 21st century or even beyond that
technology (Even Doremon
is from 21st century not beyond
that!), but yes, such
technology can exist, and I believe that technical textile will have an
important role in that. Currently we are now way near that technology, but we
can. For achieving such a kind of technology it will more than years or can
even take a century.
In The end I would like to say only one point that textile is
everlasting. There is no end to this field.
Cloth is one of the 3 basic needs that a human being requires to survive. In last few decades
we have expanded
use of textile from clothing
to functional and believe me this is just a start. The real is best is
still to come.
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