Aerographite claims title of World's Lightest Solid Material
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A microscope image of aerographite, which is now officially the world's lightest solid material (Image: Technical University of Hamburg)
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While they were each once hailed as the lightest solid material ever made, metallic microlattice and aerogel have now been moved back to second and third place (respectively), with aerographite taking the crown. Developed by a team from the Technical University of Hamburg and Germany’s University of Kiel, the material is composed of 99.99 percent air, along with a three-dimensional network of porous carbon nanotubes that were grown into each other.
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