Mmm, all-metal sleeping pads. But will it keep my cowboy coffee hot?
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/nov/17/scientists-invent-metal-100-times-lighter-styrofoa/
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Darn, you beat me too it! What happens when your tent stakes blow away?
Applications? It might work as the sandwiched material in composite sheets, a heat spreader in stoves or a very porous pre-filter.
Interesting, but I wonder what it's hardness and strength is like. It may not be too applicable to us if it is too soft.
It appears to be a simple latice like structure composed of small metal tubes or pins. Not really a new metal.
Coupled with the 1000x strength increases in the so-called nano technology (directed growth iron crystals) and the technology leap implied by the attachments (nano-welding?) we are sure to see spin off in the next 25-30 years, if not sooner.
Thanks for the update!
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