new material is incredibly light yet stronger than steel. The new material gets its amazing

strength from its unique geometric configuration. Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT A spongy new super-material could be lighter than the flimsiest plastic yet 10 times stronger than steel. The new super-material is made up of flecks of graphene squished and fused together into a vast, cobwebby network. The fluffy structure, which looks a bit like a psychedelic sea creature, is almost completely hollow; its density is just 5 percent that of ordinary graphene, the researchers said. What's more, though the researchers used graphene, the seemingly magical properties of the material do not totally depend on the atoms used: The secret ingredient is the way those atoms are aligned, the scientists said.           https://www.livescience.com/57432-stronger-than-steel-material.html       
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