Specialists Boeing created the world's lightest material out of metal

The new material, developed at Boeing, made of metal, but it is so lightweight that it can easily keep himself on the faded flower of a dandelion.

The product, called microlactin (microresearch), 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and connections made of hollow metal tubes. Its structure resembles the structure of the bone in which the outer part is hard, and the interior is mostly hollow, making the material ultra-light and yet resistant to fracture.





Researcher of the laboratory of HRL Sophia Yang said that the polymers with otkrytost struktoroy are "the lightest materials in the world." To explain the useful properties of such a polymer, it results as an example of FAQ in schools problem — how to keep the egg intact when dropped. If you wrap it before you experiment in this material, and not, for example, in a roll of bubble wrap, then the task will be successfully solved, she said.

For Boeing the most likely scope of the new ultra-light polymer is aircraft – this will allow the designers to save on weight and make the aircraft more economical.published

 

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