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New Material: As Strong As Steel, As Light As Styrofoam!

German Science Guy
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A research group from Canada and South Korea have developed a new high-performance material. It is as strong as carbon steel and as light as polystyrene. This combination could enable ultra-lightweight components and thus save a lot of fuel. In aircraft, for example, up to 80 liters per year for every kilogram saved. And a passenger plane today often weighs several hundred tons. What kind of material it is, what the differences are to conventional alternatives and how great the potential really is, that's what we're going to talk about now. This video was created by my editorial team. Responsible from the editorial team: Florian Krupka, Jacob Beautemps; Editing: Aron Kamenz, Sören Rensch, Neo Sanjuan Thiele Sources Source 1: https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/... Source 2: https://www.lufthansagroup.com/en/com... Source 3: https://www.fraunhofer.de/de/forschun... Source 4: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.... Source 5: https://www2.lbl.g …...more
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New Material: As Strong As Steel, As Light As Styrofoam!
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May 232025
A research group from Canada and South Korea have developed a new high-performance material. It is as strong as carbon steel and as light as polystyrene. This combination could enable ultra-lightweight components and thus save a lot of fuel. In aircraft, for example, up to 80 liters per year for every kilogram saved. And a passenger plane today often weighs several hundred tons. What kind of material it is, what the differences are to conventional alternatives and how great the potential really is, that's what we're going to talk about now. This video was created by my editorial team. Responsible from the editorial team: Florian Krupka, Jacob Beautemps; Editing: Aron Kamenz, Sören Rensch, Neo Sanjuan Thiele Sources Source 1: https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/... Source 2: https://www.lufthansagroup.com/en/com... Source 3: https://www.fraunhofer.de/de/forschun... Source 4: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.... Source 5: https://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles... Source 6: https://phys.org/news/2008-01-smaller... Source 7: https://www.spektrum.de/lexikon/chemi... Source 8: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/scienc... Source 9: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/scienc... Source 10: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/scienc... Source 11: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/scienc... Source 12: https://www.digitalengineering247.com... Source 13: https://onscale.com/meshing-in-fea-in... Source 14: https://onscale.com/meshing-in-fea-me... Source 15: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/scienc... Source 16: https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/f... Source 17: https://bayesoptbook.com/book/bayesop... Source 18: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.02811 Source 19: https://www.spektrum.de/lexikon/mathe... Source 20: https://ekamperi.github.io/machine%20... Source 21: https://www.isc.fraunhofer.de/content... Source 22: https://www.chemie.de/lexikon/Polysty... Source 23: https://www.aw-technik.at/stahlgewich... New science and technology videos every week! We show innovations that make our world better and point the way to our future. The videos are made in Germany, but the topics are from all over the world.

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