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

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @03:09PM 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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SI units, please by Lumpio- · 2012-09-11 15:22 · Score: 5, Insightful

Could we have the equivalent of "a desktop" and "one-and-a-half football fields" in a more scientific unit? I'm not American enough to remember how big a "football field" is.
Re:What are the implications? by SydShamino · 2012-09-11 16:22 · Score: 4, Insightful

Depending on its electrical properties it could be a component of an ultracapacitor.

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