The paper of the future: 10 Times Lighter, 500 Times Stronger Than Steel

It’s called “buckypaper”, it looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, and it has the potential of revolutionize the way everything from airplanes, cars or TVs are made.

It is an amazing material: 10 times lighter but 500 times stronger than steel when sheets of it are stacked and pressed together to form a composite it conducts electricity like copper or silicon and disperses heat like steel or brass.
“All those things are what a lot of people in nanotechnology have been working toward as sort of Holy Grails,” (Wade Adams, a scientist at Rice University).
It is made from tube-shaped carbon molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair and because of its unique properties, this could be the new  material used for light, energy-efficient aircraft and automobiles, more powerful computers, improved TV screens and much more.

Watch the video to see it in action:

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