World's lightest material developed

Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 15:50 in Physics & Chemistry

A team of researchers from UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world's lightest material – with a density of 0.9 mg / cc – about 100 times lighter than Styrofoam. Their findings appear in the Nov. 18 issue of Science.

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