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Synthetic Materials Set New World Record For Greatest Amount of Surface Area

Posted by Soulskill on from the narrowly-beating-out-your-mamma dept.

Zothecula writes "Researchers at Northwestern University, Illinois, have broken a world record in the creation of two synthetic materials, named NU-109 and NU-110, which have the greatest amount of surface areas of any material to date (abstract). To put this into perspective: if one were able to take a crystal of NU-110 the size of a grain of salt, and somehow unfold it, the surface area would cover a desktop. Additionally, the internal surface area of just one gram of the new material would cover one-and-a-half football fields."

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  1. Re:SI units, please by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many magic bags of holding is it comparable to?

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  2. It's bigger... by zawarski · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...on the inside!

    1. Re:It's bigger... by boarder8925 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Time and Relative Dimension in Salt

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  3. Re:SI units, please by TapeCutter · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the old woman who gave birth to your "mom".

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  4. Re:What are the implications? by Jade_Wayfarer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought Mexicans were unquestionable leaders in this field?

    (Hey, I have nothing against Mexicans or even light drugs like the weed, really.)

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