New frame material on the way?

[thegunner]

http://www.euronews.com/2012/11/01/lighter-than-air-material-discovered/

it's happening fellas. Frames that will float away without components :)

[MattTuck]

Neat! They're doing really interesting things with advanced materials today... i just saw something about graphene, and some of the applications they think they'll use it for... amazing stuff.

I have one question, if it is lighter than air, why wasn't it floating away?


As for applications for frame building, we'll have to wait and see if it is laterally stiff and vertically compliant ;)

[jmoore]

Is it laterally stiff yet vertically compliant?

[thegunner]

Neat! They're doing really interesting things with advanced materials today... i just saw something about graphene, and some of the applications they think they'll use it for... amazing stuff.

I have one question, if it is lighter than air, why wasn't it floating away?


As for applications for frame building, we'll have to wait and see if it is laterally stiff and vertically compliant ;)

haha it is. that's the difficulty in fabrication. i used to work in a lab that focused on carbon-nanotubes and the hardships didn't come with theorizing, it came with fabrication and testing. everything we made was so fragile that we'd ruin it with one data point. not very much credence from n=1.

[vqdriver]

I have one question, if it is lighter than air, why wasn't it floating away?




gravity

[ultraman6970]

Obree you there?

[thegunner]

gravity

:p tongue in cheek response?

[cachagua]

I'm afraid I'm with Grant Peterson on this one.

[MadRocketSci]

SSTO (single stage to orbit) baby! the buoyancy force wouldn't hurt either....

[sworcester]

I can't imagine what this might cost me. Maybe when I am racing Masters 70+ it will be affordable.... (18 years)