{"id":7022,"date":"2011-11-18T10:22:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=7022"},"modified":"2011-11-18T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:27:44","slug":"industry-academic-team-creates-ultralight-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=7022","title":{"rendered":"Industry, Academic Team Creates Ultralight Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BlueFeather_SionaKarenFlickr-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7024\" title=\"BlueFeather_SionaKarenFlickr (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BlueFeather_SionaKarenFlickr-2.jpg\" alt=\"Blue feather (Siona Karen\/Flickr)\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BlueFeather_SionaKarenFlickr-2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BlueFeather_SionaKarenFlickr-2-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrl.com\/hrlDocs\/pressreleases\/2011\/prsRls_111117.html\">HRL Laboratories LLC<\/a> in Malibu California, with colleagues from California Institute of Technology and the University of California at Irvine, have developed an ultralight material with a density of 0.9 milligrams per cubic centimeter (mg\/cc). The substance, about 100 times lighter than Styrofoam packing material, is described in the November 18 issue of the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/334\/6058\/962.abstract\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a> (paid subscription required).<\/p>\n<p>The new material has a cellular lattice-type architecture, fabricated at a scale as small as billions of a meter. The fabrication process consists of 99.99 percent open volume, by designing the 0.01 percent solid at millimeter to nanometer scales. &#8220;The trick,&#8221; says lead author Tobias Schaedler of HRL, &#8220;is to fabricate a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness of 100 nanometers, 1,000 times thinner than a human hair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cellular architecture gives the material unusual properties for a metal. It can complete recover from compression exceeding 50 percent strain and has very high energy absorption similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/jep.sagepub.com\/\">elastomers<\/a> &#8212; polymers such as polyisoprene (natural rubber) or polyurethane (e.g. spandex) .<\/p>\n<p>HRL developed the material for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), with potential applications in battery electrodes, catalyst supports, and acoustic, vibration or shock energy damping. HRL &#8212; originally known as Hughes Research Laboratories when established in 1948 &#8212; is owned by the Boeing Company and General Motors.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=6629\">Stretchable Sensory Material Created with Carbon Nanotubes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sionakaren\/3871508362\/\">Siona Karen\/Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at HRL Laboratories LLC in Malibu California, with colleagues from California Institute of Technology and the University of California at Irvine, have developed an ultralight material with a density of 0.9 milligrams per cubic centimeter (mg\/cc). The substance, about 100 times lighter than Styrofoam packing material, is described in the November 18 issue of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[96,43,18,105,26],"class_list":["post-7022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventures","category-products","tag-chemistry","tag-materials-science","tag-nanotechnology","tag-physical-sciences","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}