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Graphene Aerogel Takes World's Lightest Material Crown

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 25, 2013 @02:00AM from the I-don't-feel-a-thing dept.

cylonlover writes "Not even a year after it claimed the title of the world's lightest material, aerographite has been knocked off its crown by a new aerogel made from graphene. Created by a research team from China's Zhejiang University in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering lab headed by Professor Gao Chao, the ultra-light aerogel has a density of just 0.16 mg/cm3, which is lower than that of helium and just twice that of hydrogen."

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Re:What ever happened to precision of speech? by Forty+Two+Tenfold · 2013-03-25 02:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Obviously the editors are not the least dense.

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Brief Kings by lymond01 · 2013-03-25 03:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Graphene Aerogel Takes World's Lightest Material Crown
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