Discovery - Super-hard metal "four times titanium" for Super Human use

[Rx_]

For those of you needing better dentures or joints, this is big news. However, it brings up the possibility of Super Human implants too. Would athletes with a titanium / gold alloy superstructure and exoskeleton be the next fad?
Reported on BBC:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36855705
A super-hard metal has been made in the laboratory by melting together titanium and gold.
The alloy is the hardest known metallic substance compatible with living tissues, say U.S. physicists.
The material is four times harder than pure titanium and has applications in making longer-lasting medical implants, they say.
Conventional knee and hip implants have to be replaced after about 10 years due to wear and tear.

Prof Emilia Morosan, of Rice University, Houston, said her team had made the discovery while working on unconventional magnets made from titanium and gold.

 

[Ranman256]

Duh, its called Adamantium.

 

[RuralGuy]

For a reference here: https://www.google.com/search?q=Adamantium&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

If you recall the early point replacements I think possibly 20 or 30 years ago do you remember that they had a problem with them failing? I happened upon an online course on material science and they raised this issue of these failures as an example of how things could go wrong. It was because the replacement joints were actually too good. The section that hammered down into the bone was very strong and did all the work the bone used to do. Hence the bone did not get flexed. Unfortunately for bone to remain healthy and strong it has to be flexed regularly. That was the cause of the failure, the bone just deteriorated around the new metal implant.

 

[Rx_]

Adamantium is a virtually indestructible steel alloy named after the fabled metal Adamantine of Greek mythology. The metal has its origins in the work of American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain during World War II when the U.S. government assigned him to military research and development. Through a metallurgic accident, MacLain created the indestructible Vibranium-steel compound that was used to create the shield used by the super-soldier Captain America. MacLain spent decades attempting to duplicate the process, and although unsuccessful, he instead created True Adamantium in the 1960s. bbbMore on Marvel.com: http://marvel.com/universe/Adamantium#ixzz4FGyF0iYT

Comment, he was always Captain America... never could rank up for some reason?
Just saying... 'Nuff Said.

The article on the BBC was an actual article. So the BBC metal probably out ranks Captain America?