lightness

World's  lightest  material  developed

With a density of 0.9 mg / cc – about 100 times lighter than Styrofoam.  


"The trick is to fabricate a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness 1,000 times thinner than a human hair,"  lead author Dr. Tobias Schaedler of HRL.




"Modern buildings, exemplified by the Eiffel Tower or the Golden Gate Bridge, are incredibly light and weight-efficient by virtue of their architecture. We are revolutionizing lightweight materials by bringing this concept to the nano and micro scales."  William Carter, manager of the architected materials group at HRL