{"id":826,"date":"2011-11-22T14:49:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T13:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2023-11-22T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T09:27:07","slug":"lightest-material-in-the-world-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/technology\/lightest-material-in-the-world-unveiled","title":{"rendered":"Lightest Material in the World Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of US engineers working at the University of California, Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have revealed the result of their latest research, a material they claim to be the world&#8217;s lightest.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This material is created from a collection of tiny hollow tubes, each tube having a wall thickness of just 100 nanometers, around 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. These tubes are arranged into a micro-lattice formation, a diagonal pattern with the tubes crossing each other with small open spaces between them.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting density of this material is 0.9 milligrams per cubic centimetre, compared to polystyrene this is around 100 times lighter. This metallic micro-lattice consists of 99.99% air and 0.01% solid which gives it such a low density.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being the lightest material it is also very strong due to the ordered nature of the lattice design. Potential uses of this material due to it&#8217;s properties are in shock absorbers and next generation batteries. Further details of this research are published in the latest edition of Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of US engineers working at the University of California, Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have revealed the result of their latest research, a material they claim to be the world&#8217;s lightest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2155,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nethosted.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}