WORLD’S LIGHTEST METAL TO LEND ITSELF TO AEROSPACE AND AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION
November 1st, 2011
BY MJ DESCHAMPS and LEAH GERMAIN
A NEW metal structure 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and poised to revolutionise the aerospace and automotive industries has been developed in the US 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 up of a series of tiny, hollow, nickel-phosphorous tubes angled to connect at nodes, which form repeating, asterisk-like unit cells in three dimensions. The micro-lattice's ...
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