Six times lighter than air

A group of Chinese experts managed to develop and produce solid material, which is not only the lightest known one, but also possesses a number of other impressive technical characteristics.

Apart from the fact that the new material is six times lighter than air, it also has a density of 0,16 milligrams per centimeter cubic. The material developed by Chinese scientists is so “weightless” that its fragment quietly lies on the flower petals, not even bending them down. In addition, the material is able to absorb the volume of another substance, nine hundred times its own weight.

All these technical features of the new material open up great opportunities for all areas of production, including the space industry. However, at this stage, the authors of the development plan to use their invention to clean the surface of the planet from oil spills. According to Chinese experts, one gram of new material can absorb 68,8 grams of organic matter per second.

Such an amazing material, managed to develop thanks to the freeze-dried process, which allowed specialists to remove moisture from the graphene chain and carbon nanotubes - while retaining all the characteristics. New material received the name - graphene airgel.

Comments

[kostyan77708]

Well done Chinese what to say!

[Phantom Revolution]

Here they are nanotechnology.

[yak69]

And we have a nanoscale on this topic.
It's a shame, however!

[crazyrom]

Some nonsense. If the material is lighter than air, why does it lie on a flower and does not fly up like a balloon? Someone mixed up something.

[LION]

I apologize, but if it is lighter than air, why didn’t it fly away?

[ULxaw86]

apparently absorbed the volume of another substance 900 times its own mass

[aksakal]

Yes, China is increasingly declaring itself not only as the future center of planetary economic development, but also as the future planetary scientific center - (((((. With the backlog in a number of industries and technologies, China is simultaneously at the forefront in a number of other industries and technologies - (((((.
You can’t lag behind such a neighbor - it’ll cost yourself more!

[Alexander Romanov]

Quote: aksakal

You can’t lag behind such a neighbor - it’ll cost yourself more!

ALLO Chubais, where are you with your super-duper NANO Skolkovo ??????????
they did something there, invented something else in another place, but what did our Skolkovo do — does anyone know on the site?
do not talk about the tablet.

[andrejwz]

Quote: Alexander Romanov

do not talk about the tablet.

So speak or not speak?

[Samaritan]

What a fucking habit, a little something to harass Russia ?! Like China, so all the fellows and geniuses, as in Russia so ... all the polymers have been drained!
Read carefully, run through the sites and find out!
Nano is really developing in Russia at a fast pace!

[Armata]

Quote: Samaritan

Nano is really developing in Russia at a fast pace!

And what have we developed besides the microlaser. Which everything, including money, makes invisible ?.

[kontrol]

Chubais is not for building - it is for cutting

[self-propelled]

Quote: kontrol

Chubais is not for building - it is for cutting

so let him saw in the taiga. maybe there will be more sense

[Dragonmu]

A whole series of nano paints (they have a longer service life and can be painted on any surface, even glossy), a bunch of moisture-resistant nano coatings (on which water in principle does not adhere and moisture does not penetrate through such a coating), LED production (Optogan under Peter, the whole range lighting systems, economical and durable). Moreover, RUSNANO has already brought many projects to serial production. All this is specifically and in great detail described on the RUSNANO website and on each website, of each project. We live in the world of digital technology and being able to google this big PROFIT.http: //www.rusnano.com/projects/portfolio. In general, ours, too, are not asleep, but of course it is very difficult to compete with Kitay now, they have both an ideology and inner and outer calm.

[Forget]

Quote: aksakal

You can’t lag behind such a neighbor - it’ll cost yourself more!

for sure! I hope that Kazakhstan will begin to develop high-tech technologies ...

[aksakal]

Quote: Forget

for sure! I hope that Kazakhstan will begin to develop high-tech technologies ...

- In Kazakhstan, to be honest, I'm tired of hoping -)))) Many beautiful words, little action. In private conversations, in general, frankly - "why this smut? Shove raw materials, live, drag, do you need more than anyone else? Anyway, in science, they can't catch up with them, and they will immediately bring their developments to us on the beak for our raw materials, not sweat "

[SCS]

that's what it means to invest in the development of science ....

[smel]

that's what it means to invest in science
And not to banks in CYPRUS

[Ghenxnumx]

Quote: Six times lighter than air

According to Chinese experts, one gram of new material, able to absorb 68,8 grams of organic matter per second.

Journalists confused something here - the material cannot absorb infinitely, like a black hole

[Tartary]

Ghen75 ::::::: Something the journalists messed up here - the material cannot absorb infinitely, like a black hole

Imagine a gram of material in volume - for example, 1 decimeter (10x10x10 cm) or less, can absorb 68,8 grams of water - it's like an incomplete faceted 100 gram glass of vodka ...
What is the problem?????????????

[Old skeptic]

new material six times lighter than air

He is flying? Or did I miss a physics couple? Or did the Chinese repeal Archimedes' law?

[aksakal]

Quote: Ghen75

journalists confused here - it cannot absorb material endlessly like a black hole

- Ghen, have you had any experience of babysitting? So, in the most banal diaper, there are only a few tens of grams of a special polymer called by chemists "hydrophilic polymer", that is, literally loving to absorb water. So these several tens of grams absorb the child's urine in such an amount - when did you throw out an overflowing diaper? Have you compared its weight with a dry diaper? Estimate how much these tens of grams of such polymer have absorbed. And this is the cheapest and simplest version of a hydrophilic polymer. I won't even talk about specially made laboratory samples - there will be a template break -)))). Or I will say - throw such a polymer with a grain of rice into a cistern (for 1 ton of water) and oppanki, take out a polymer weighing a ton -)))). When the apartment was flooded because of a broken pipe - how much running to save the situation -))))))). And then they threw such a grain, and after a few minutes, cut the swollen plastic and take it out into the street in parts -))))). Such a hydrophilic polymer is only expensive -))))

[bairat]

a material is capable of absorbing a volume of another substance nine hundred times its own mass.
Volume exceeding mass 900 times is pearl. We become so illiterate that we will soon cease to understand what they invented there. Or have already become.

[Tartary]

Quote: bairat

900 times the mass is pearl

Quote: krasin

It has a density of 0,16 milligrams per centimeter cubic.

0,16 mg = 0,00016 gr. in 1 cc, i.e. in 1 cube dm. (10x10x10 = 1000 cc, which means the weight of such a cube of material = 0,16 g.
Water is the standard weight in volume ... i.e. 1 liter of water weighs 1 kg. From the density of water is counting oil, gasoline, etc., taking into account the temperature of the medium and liquid.
Water in 1 cube dm. = 1000 cc see = 1 liter.
1000-0,16 = 999,84 cc see occupies free space in the material itself.
Given the fact that oil fractions have a lower density than water, this will turn out about 900 times.
They tell you 900, listing the number of arithmetic calculation, with some density coefficient already incorporated, maybe oil.
That's all.

I hope it is correct, but the main thing is clearly stated?

[srha]

The article is illiterate. Saying that a cubic centimeter is 900 times lighter than a gram is the same as saying that 5 seconds is more than 12 meters. Nonsense. The concept of units in the article is completely absent.
And to write about the fact that the material is 6 times lighter than air and immediately show it lying, which means that it drowned, at the bottom of the air tank - is simply nonsense.

[viruskvartirus]

Yes, I also drew attention immediately to "6 times lighter than air" in short, any news can be presented in such a way that it will look like the first flight into space.

[DEfindER]

Quote: srha

The article is illiterate. Saying that a cubic centimeter is 900 times lighter than a gram is the same as saying that 5 seconds is more than 12 meters.

Well, why, they just say - 1 cm cubic of this substance weighs 1/900 grams, everything is clear.

Quote: srha

And to write about the fact that the material is 6 times lighter than air and immediately show it lying, which means that it drowned, at the bottom of the air tank - is simply nonsense.

I agree with this, even if it was 1% lighter than air, it should tend upwards .. though maybe they put it on a flower in a vacuum, then everything converges ..

In general, I do not believe that it is actually lighter than air, when the carbon atom itself is much heavier than oxygen and nitrogen, I think the article is not accurate, and in fact it is just a very light material but not lighter than air ..

[Nayhas]

Will this news be a break in the template for apologists for the theory that China itself is not capable of doing anything, but is only involved in copying?

[leon-iv]

No, this is an ordinary high-performance absorber for a specific chemical product in our case, oil.

[krasin]

Besides the fact that the new material is six times lighter than air, it also has a density of 0,16 milligrams per centimeter cubic.
This is how it is ????. Where is Chubais to submit it here, profiled the discovery, graphene is our nanotechnology, while it is finished ... l abroad. and the Chinese finished the opening. No, we don’t get along with the Chubais. Well done Chinese, silently,
.completely finished off and here you are

[Asgard]

What to me as an engineer, hurts the eye and ear ....
What does it mean six times lighter than air ??? How to measure ?? Solid matter in this (manifested world)) is always heavier and denser - gases .... About the absorption of another substance in the stated proportions, is it either a wrong translation!? Or stupid people are journalists from the project mail / ru)))
The article was written clearly not by an expert ..... This cannot be called a statement .....
Yes, and for the Chinese themselves b-o-about-the-doubts .... (I personally have)))))
The Chinese can’t invent something themselves .... There wasn’t one in ISTORIA)))

[Alexander Romanov]

Quote: Asgard

What to me as an engineer, hurts the eye and ear ....
What does it mean six times lighter than air ??? How to measure ??

Well, the post is left above

Quote: bairat

We become so illiterate that we will soon cease to understand what they invented there. Or have already become.

But man is right

[Alexxeg73]

Gunpowder, paper ... When the tribes in Russia ran with hoes, the Chinese already launched fireworks.

[Alexander Romanov]

Quote: Alexxeg73

When the tribes in Russia with the hoes ran the Chinese already launched fireworks

When the Chinese invented gunpowder. In Egypt expanded clay, granite and basalite were treated, as with good morning! Who invented what first, today no longer establish

[Alexxeg73]

This is in response to "... The Chinese themselves cannot invent something .... There was no such thing in history))) ..."

[Igor]

Quote: Alexxeg73

Gunpowder, paper ...

I watched a program about the warriors of ancient China at a time when the whole world was punishing each other with clubs, swords, etc. the Chinese already had underwater mines from the pig’s intestines, dragon-headed war missiles and prototypes of today's grenades.

[mladenec]

When the first Europeans visited China, they found to their surprise that China did not have its own story ... Well, they didn’t have such a habit of writing down !!!!!!!!!!, and the good Europeans decided to come up with a story for them !! ! :)
And about gunpowder and paper, who told you;) It is enough to think about the civilization that discovered gunpowder and used it for 1000 years only as fireworks ??? In my opinion, flawed ... After the development of gunpowder, how many years have Europeans come to a firearm, a steam engine, and so on?

[ULxaw86]

They wrote down! They wrote down!
Only when the ruling dynasties changed did this chronicle disappear !!!

[biglow]

They couldn’t come up with anything further than fireworks, and that’s doubtful. There are no nitrate deposits in China, The nearest deposits are in the Middle East, all this is very doubtful

[ULxaw86]

cast iron was cast!

[Ustas]

Quote: Asgard

The Chinese can’t invent something themselves .... There wasn’t one in ISTORIA)))

But what about gunpowder?

[biglow]

Ustas
in Europe, monk Bertold Schwartz came up with gunpowder and in Europe all the raw materials for gunpowder were in China and there were no raw materials for gunpowder in China, and who invented them in China?

[Tartary]

Quote: Ustas

But what about gunpowder?

Yeah, where there, gunpowder ....
Gunpowder was invented by our ancestors - Tartaria! Or Hyperborea - as you wish ...
In the east, they were called differently ... So, for example - Ainu, Chjurgeni ...
Just then there was no need to keep secrets from neighbors ...
And now, the neighbors know, but do not want to confess.
After all, if you touch the topic, then how to carry the brand "Great (Ancient) China"?

[Asgard]

Sometimes (often))) You write such garbage that I’m afraid to comment))) but at the moment it’s really known to very few ....
good luck, Regards ....

[Tartary]

Quote: Asgard

Sometimes (often))) You write such garbage that I am afraid to comment)))

Do not be afraid of anything ... Boldly, colleague!
Bullshit - is that in the sense of nonsense? Or somehow else you can call it?

[Tartary]

Quote: Tartary

Bullshit - is that in the sense of nonsense? Or somehow else you can call it?

/ aksndcvksbv. ..wjb, kbascxjsevbkb

[krasin]

Or maybe the translation is still wrong ??

[Black Colonel]

Well done, yellow-faced brothers in mind! Although doubt somehow creeps in - how is it, a solid substance is 6 times lighter than air?

[Tatar]

if it is lighter than air, then it should soar above the petals, and not lie on them. CANNOT !!!!!!!!

[queen]

Quote: Tatar

CANNOT !!!!!!!

Yeah, not weird weed

[Alexander Romanov]

Quote: Tatar

if it is lighter than air, then it should soar above the petals, and not lie on them. CANNOT !!!!

But is the density of the material and air not taken into account?

[demon ada]

6 times lighter than air
those. it must have negative "buoyancy" in the atmosphere
those. it should not lie on the petals but soar to the top, or I don’t understand something.

[queen]

Quote: demon ada

and soar to the top

They have not yet blown it in the wind tunnel, and the tail fins are not visible)))

[ovgorskiy]

It should not soar, but fly into the upper atmosphere. Something got confused either by "competent" journalists, or by Chinese "scientists".

[Alexxeg73]

No wonder. It has a "porous" structure and is essentially filled with air. Normal, under normal pressure. So it cannot take off. What is in the photo likely weighs as much as the air it fills.

[Forget]

[quote = Alexxeg73]
Right

[bulgurkhan]

No wonder. It has a "porous" structure and is essentially filled with air. Normal, under normal pressure. So it cannot take off. What is in the photo likely weighs as much as the air it fills.

And what then is 6 times lighter than air?

[Tatanka Yotanka]

Quote: bulgurkhan

And what then is 6 times lighter than air?

heated air - judging by the balloons

[in reserve]

demon ada
6 times lighter than air
those. it must have negative "buoyancy" in the atmosphere
those. it should not lie on the petals but soar to the top, or I don’t understand something.

Perhaps gravity also plays a role.

[explorer]

0,16 milligrams per centimeter cubic = 0,00016 grams / cm³ cubic
Density of hydrogen 0,0708 g / cm³

[Forget]

Quote: smel

And not to banks in CYPRUS

exact joke!

[Igor]

What did they invent a super sponge?

In addition, the material is able to absorb the volume of another substance, nine hundred times its own mass.

I bought myself a sponge the size of a bar of soap, put it under a stream of water and after a few minutes you are the owner of a water mattress

[slavik_gross]

what the chinaways are doing.

[Mr.Net]

Quote: demon ada

6 times lighter than air
those. it must have negative "buoyancy" in the atmosphere
those. it should not lie on the petals but soar to the top, or I don’t understand something.

Have you forgotten gravity? He has mass. This is a substance with an extremely low density.

[Gregazov]

Gravity does not interfere with floating the log on the surface of the water. The buoyant force acts both in water and in air, in any environment, so that this note is published a little ahead of schedule. Happy April Fools

[novik225]

victim of education reform?

[Alexxeg73]

Americans a year ago created a material with a density of 0.9 milligrams per cubic centimeter. In the USA, this material was ordered by DARPA. In Germany, they created a similar material with a density of already 0,2. So nothing new in the news, the usual technology race. This time China overtook, another time someone else ...

[Svarog]

Yes, for engineers the given parameters are from the field of perpetual motion machine. The rest scold Chubais ... If he prevents the emergence of such "super materials", then he is already working off his money, these are some cuts :)

[Stiletto]

I immediately remember the Chinese cinema - "House of Flying Daggers", or something. So they are lighter than air there themselves - they flutter, fight, squeal something ... Yes, and no one has canceled Photoshop yet.

[Wedmak]

6 times lighter than air ... why then does it lie on a flower, and does not fly up into the stratosphere?
And why is it not transparent by the way ... If the jade there is only a lattice of nanotubes, at the density that they said, light should pass through it! As a last resort, dissipate, but not absorbed.

[cvx]

0,16 milligrams per centimeter cubic is 0,16 kg / m3. Helium has approximately the same density. New Chinese material should fly into the sky. And as bairat correctly noted, a competent specialist will not be so expressed

a material is capable of absorbing a volume of another substance nine hundred times its own mass

[Roll]

The material may not take off, if it is glued to the flower, if the nanotube is vacum, then it may well be lighter than air.

[Wedmak]

What is the vacuum? What are you speaking about? If so, this cube would crush !!!

[Fortnite]

But Chubais can not be attached to it (for testing)? So that he, like Winnie, flew off to a thread ... Into foggy Albion, for example, behind a scarf ...

[Roll]

But in general, it seems like the truth, for example, as a photographer I asked scientists to glue such an object so that they wouldn’t fly away from the sneeze, if the manufacturing technology is in vacuum, then the weight of graphite plus vacuum in volume may well be six times less than air volume, then its absorption It’s clear, though it’s not clear how the liquid enters the vacuum and the air does not.

[Navy7981]

Chubais must be attached to this material! Can absorb?

[Castor oil]

Well, this thing is just a find as a cat litter!

[Forget]

Quote: Alexxeg73

Right

[Forget]

Quote: Alexxeg73

No wonder. It has a "porous" structure and is essentially filled with air. Normal, under normal pressure. So it cannot take off. What is in the photo likely weighs as much as the air it fills.

Right

[viruskvartirus]

Okay, we need to dilute the discussion "Heavy-duty materials for aviation and space technology are developed in Russia" http://warfiles.ru/show-17841-sverhprochnye-materialy-dlya-aviacii-i-kosmichesko
y-tehniki-razrabotany-v-rossii.html

[romb]

Absorbent based on polymeric materials? If so, then this kind of material was developed back in the days of the Union. I would not be surprised if the basis of its structure is natural vermiculite.

[Lone gunman]

Ale Chubaisik how do you answer, another stolen $ 1000000000?

[Lone gunman]

ordinary foam, from non-ordinary materials, these are not breakthrough technologies, the same is anti-gravity to me

[in reserve]

But Russia is still ahead, watch the video on this link, it is possible that ours transferred this technology to them.

http://azerbaijan-irs.com/17996/kitajskie-ximiki-razrabotali-poristyj-material-u


delnaya-massa-kotorogo-v-6-5-raz-legche-vozduxa /

[Isk1984]

Here .... and our scientists received the Nobel Prize for Graphene, but the Chinese comrades will use the fruits of practical application, since our dear government will do science, and Anatoly will do the same with the Rao of the EU and sell it. ... and fall apart .....

[Fortnite]

That's what he’s planted ... So that we, well, didn’t get ahead ahead ...

[Vladimirets]

After reading the versions about why a piece of this shit material does not fly, I realized that the education system is no good.

[Averias]

Yeah, I, too, neighed over the statements that if it is lighter than air, then it should strive upwards. Well, yes, a balloon is not gas or heated air raises, but a shell. About porosity, density, uniformity and heterogeneity and gravity somehow forgot Well I can’t rust.

[Averias]

In his youth, I read a note in the magazine "Young Technician", which told about an unusual substance invented in the USA. These are granules, which, when poured into water, bind this water (it becomes like a dense gel) that can be cut into arbitrary pieces (that is, it is convenient to transport). To return back to the liquid form, it is enough to pour water. They prophesied this invention for deserts where water transportation is a problem. Only later, I have not heard anywhere else even a mention of this development. I almost forgot, while the water is in a jelly-like state, they taste similar to condensed milk, you can see you can still eat. How true this is, I don't know. We sometimes wrote this, especially the newspaper "Trud" and its "Last Column". Opuses from the category "The cow ate the wolf", the Japanese laid rails through the human hair and started the train. In general, what I read and then told. So it is with China.

[romb]

That's right, something like this "product" and wanted to test Gaddafi to create oases on the territory. Sahara in southern Libya. Roughly speaking, it was an absorbent based on polymer materials, which at the initial stage absorbed a certain amount of moisture, then it was transferred to the root system of trees and plants. The most interesting thing is that the transfer process was kind of programmable, namely, after a strictly defined time interval or was carried out only with a specific request from the root system.
Unfortunately, the "gardens in the desert" did not have time to bloom.

[darksoul]

This is what greed led to: cheap Chinese power .... they brought all production there, they threw off the technology together and rowed the dough all over the world, and they learn ... this is a gift .... countries have been developing technology for decades, but they got it So. Even in my area of ​​video surveillance, our experts developed software and video capture cards for assembly in China, it is already difficult to find non-Chinese equipment on the market, Chinese cameras simply crushed other foreign brands at the cost of ..... in the field of armament this also begins to manifest itself .. ..copying our military equipment in my opinion reached an unacceptable scale: drying, BMP-3, s-300, Kalash, tornado .... what's next. Well, for the fact that they produced light solid material, they were great, it’s definitely +1

[albi77]

We have invented such material for a long time ... it only absorbs money ...
billions)))

[Honory]

Did the Chinese themselves think of it, or as always stole someone else's?