energy absorber Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:17:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 World's Lightest Material is a Metal, Could Be Used for Making Better Batteries https://www.greenoptimistic.com/world-lightest-material-metal-20111118/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/world-lightest-material-metal-20111118/#respond Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:17:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21220 A newly invented material could revolutionize many industries at once. Discovered by a collaborating team from three U.S. universities, the metal is the lightest material ever discovered – so light it can actually sit on a dandelion. The new material’s density is 0.9 milligrams/cubic centimeter, and Styrofoam, one of the lightest so far, is 100 […]

The post World's Lightest Material is a Metal, Could Be Used for Making Better Batteries appeared first on The Green Optimistic.

]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/world-lightest-material-metal-20111118/feed/ 0 21220