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World’s Lightest Material  This fascinating new material, developed by researchers at UC Irvine, the “world’s lightest material,” which is so light that it can be placed atop a dandelion without disturbing the seeds. “The material’s architecture allows unprecedented mechanical behavior for a metal, including complete recovery from compression exceeding 50 percent strain and extraordinarily high energy absorption.” As Dr. Tobias Schaedler of HRL (Hughes Research Laboratories), lead author, described it:  “The new material redefines the limits of lightweight materials because of its unique “micro-lattice” cellular architecture. The researchers were able to make a material that consists of 99.99 percent air by designing the 0.01 percent solid at the nanometer, micron and millimeter scales. “The trick is to fabricate a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness 1,000 times thinner than a human hair.”

World’s Lightest Material 

This fascinating new material, developed by researchers at UC Irvine, the “world’s lightest material,” which is so light that it can be placed atop a dandelion without disturbing the seeds. “The material’s architecture allows unprecedented mechanical behavior for a metal, including complete recovery from compression exceeding 50 percent strain and extraordinarily high energy absorption.” As Dr. Tobias Schaedler of HRL (Hughes Research Laboratories), lead author, described it: 

“The new material redefines the limits of lightweight materials because of its unique “micro-lattice” cellular architecture. The researchers were able to make a material that consists of 99.99 percent air by designing the 0.01 percent solid at the nanometer, micron and millimeter scales. “The trick is to fabricate a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness 1,000 times thinner than a human hair.”

(Source: Boing Boing)

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