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Buckypaper Is 500 Times Stronger Than Steel

Started by sbspalding · 8 months ago

Buckyballs are hollow spheres of Fullerenes, a carbon allotrope named after Buckminster Fuller. When you “stretch” them out into cylinders you call them carbon nanotubes, an extremely expensive to produce but incredibly strong (up to 500 times stronger than steel by ... Continue reading »

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  • http://www.kth.se/aktuellt/1.20512?l=en_uk

    "Paper grocery bags that don´t tear? That may not be too far off thanks to the new nano paper, developed at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and STFI-Packforsk (A Swedish R&D company in the fields of pulp, paper, the graphics media, packaging and logistics). The material, which is tougher than cast iron, is made from nanosized whiskers of cellulose. Furthermore, it is lighter than conventional paper and could provide sturdy scaffolds for growing replacement tissues and organs. The new material recently got a news flash at Science´s online news section ScienceNOW, and has also got attention in The New York Times and New Scientist."
  • I find it funny how the scientist is being careful with the strongest material known to man
  • Impressive. It's solid as rock but flexible as a sheet of paper.

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