Lighter than Styrofoam?

The UPI gets all of the credit for breaking a story today that was originally published in the Journal Science. Scientists have developed a material that they are coining “ultralight metallic microlattice”. This man-made material has some strength in it (not significant – but enough to hold a shape) and is 100 times lighter than Styrofoam. Aside from a gas,[This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please click Subscribe in the upper right corner to continue.]

Posted by karen on Nov 21 2011. Filed under Special Interest. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry