One of the strongest lightweight materials known

A team of MIT engineers has successfully designed a new 3-D material with five percent the density of steel and ten times the strength, making it one of the strongest lightweight materials known. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/3-d-graphene-strongest-lightest-materials-0106)

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Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
3-D printing footage and experiment simulation: Gang Seob Jung/Zhao Qin
Graphene animation: Pond5/edited by Melanie Gonick