Thursday, October 23, 2008

Materials Update

"Buckypaper" is ten times lighter than steel and potentially 500 times stronger, and will likely revolutionize everything from TVs to aircraft:

http://www.physorg.com/news143462841.html

It also gives a brief history of the discovery of (essentially) zero-, one- and two-dimentional forms of buckminsterfullerene.

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