Aerographite – the lightest material in the world - 21 august 2012

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Aerographite - the lightest material in the world -
5000 times less dense than water and six times lighter than air
BY NIX - AUGUST 21, 2012
POSTED IN: SCIENCE

New lightest material developed by German scientists from Keil
University and The Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) is named
Aerographite. It is jet-black, remains stable, is electrically
conductive, ductile and non-transparent. It is composed of a network
of porous carbon tubes that are three-dimensionally interwoven at nano
and micro level and it only weighs 0.2 milligrams per cubic
centimetre. According to Matthias Mecklenburg, co-author and Ph.D.
student at the TUHH, aerographite weights four times less than
world-record-holder up to now (Last year, researchers at the
University of California Irvine developed a material that was as
strong as metal yet 100 times lighter than Styrofoam).

Aerographite is the lightest material in the world, 5,000 times less
dense than water, and six times lighter than air.