A team of researchers from the Technical University of Hamburg and the University of Kiel say they have discovered the world's lightest material. They call it aerographite.
The material is a matrix of hollow carbon tubes, which are grown at the nano and micro scales. The complex lattice is mostly empty space -- in fact, it's composed of about 99.99% air. In all, the material weighs just 0.2 milligrams per cubic centimetre.
By: Mark Brown,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/13/aerographite
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