The company claims the product is "as strong as steel yet as lightweight as aluminum," adding that "a 100% steel composite metal foam bar will weigh the same as an equal-sized solid aluminum bar." ...

MIT researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and flexibility ...

Today in material science news we have a report from [German Science Guy] about a new supermaterial which is as strong as steel and as light as Styrofoam! A supermaterial is a type of material that… ...