Plastic to metal, steel to aluminum: The future of welding and lightweight vehicles

Plastic to metal, steel to aluminum: The future of welding and lightweight vehicles

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Making vehicle structures out of a combination of metals and plastics could make them dramatically lighter, stronger, safer and more environmentally friendly than the all-steel or all-aluminum approaches that dominate today.

But how to quickly and cheaply join all those materials together has been a sticky problem. A University of Michigan lab is developing solutions.

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