World's lightest metal to lend itself to aerospace and automotive innovation

Dec 22, 2011 | 05:24 AM |

A new metal structure 100 times lighter than Styrofoam that could transform the aerospace and automotive industries has been developed in the USA by a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology, HRL Laboratories and the University of California Irvine. Developed on a lattice (or criss-crossed) architecture, the material is made....





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