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Aerographite, the Lightest Material Ever Created

Posted July 13, 2012 1:37 PM

From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now:

We've been impressed in the past by aerogel, a lattice-like solid that's almost entirely made of air but can support weight and also has tremendous insulating properties. Then last year an ultralight metal caught our eye, weighing in at 99.99 percent air, which leaves 0.01 percent solid. Now we are excited to meet aerographite, a sponge grown of carbon nanotubes that's the least dense solid ever: a cubic centimeter of it weighs just two ten-thousandths of a gram.

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07/14/2012 8:18 AM

UHG. '....Aerographite, the lightest material ever created....' This is just wrong.

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...even if we ignore non-solids and helium/hydrogen filled objects. Ever check out the newspaper soot from lighting a fire? What about soap bubbles? Smoke?

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'....weighing in at 99.99 percent air....' This is just stupid.

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This is an engineering blog. Instead of the vacuous trite jargon conveying nothing important about Aerographite, my expectation is that CR4 will have something more useful....something like instructions for making Aerographite .
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