Scientists Develop Ultra-lightweight metallic structure 1000 Times Thinner than Hair

Scientists Develop Ultra-lightweight metallic structure 1000 Times Thinner than Hair

This is another breakthrough and new scientific achievement the world will never forget. Scientists from California HRL Laboratories have conducted a new and exciting experiment by developing an ultra-lightweight metallic structure. This astonishing ultra-lightweight metallic structure can almost float in mid-air.

According to Dr. Schaedler and his colleagues, the recent development of lightweight material will result to different products made from the same material. This new discovery is somewhat intriguing precisely on how light it can be for something metallic.

Scientists revealed that the material is not solid but a microscopic lattice that returns to its original form after being squeezed or deformed. Microscopic lattices were made with liquid photopolymer that changes its properties when exposed to light. Likewise, lattices shined patterns of ultraviolet light, resulting to a three-dimensional lattice and structure was coated with —phosphorous alloy.

Further, Dr. Schaedler and colleagues scraped away the photopolymer with lye, leaving behind a lattice of hollow nickel-phosphorus tubes each with 100- to 500-microns wide, or one-to-five times the width of a human hair. Walls of these tubes ranged from 100 to 500 nanometers or billionths of a meter thick, or up to 1,000 times thinner than a human hair.

Posted by James Fried on Monday November 21 2011, 7:28 AM EDT. Ref: Google. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, World. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0