[4] In July 2016, researchers led by Emilia Morosan at Rice University discovered that a titanium-gold alloy, β-Ti3Au, is an intermetallic alloy that is up to 4 times harder than pure titanium and most steels.
[4][5][6] In the 2008 film Iron Man, the title character wears an armor made from a titanium-gold alloy.
[7][8] According to actor Robert Downey Jr., who played the role of Iron Man, the suit fit him "like a gold-titanium glove".
[9] In the 2019 book The Secret Commonwealth (part of the universe of His Dark Materials trilogy), the alethiometer is revealed to be made primarily of a titanium-gold alloy.
[10] In S6:E22 of The Blacklist the show’s computer wizz, Aram Mojtabai, comments that the cage originally created to house Reddington is made of titanium gold alloy.