{"id":23739,"date":"2016-03-18T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/you-can-now-3d-print-the-worlds-lightest-material-graphene-aerogel"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:43:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:43:29","slug":"you-can-now-3d-print-the-worlds-lightest-material-graphene-aerogel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/you-can-now-3d-print-the-worlds-lightest-material-graphene-aerogel","title":{"rendered":"You can now 3D print the world\u2019s lightest material \u2013 graphene aerogel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RBJlsrN9Qa0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>YES PLEASE.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 7.5 times lighter than air, and a cubic metre of the stuff weighs just 160 grams. It\u2019s 12 percent lighter than the second lightest material in the world \u2013 aerographite \u2013 and you can balance a few cubic centimetres of the stuff on a dandelion head. Water is about 1,000 times as dense.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, graphene aerogel is about as cool as it gets. And while silica aerogel (pictured above) is the most commonly used and studied type of aerogel, as of 2013, graphene aerogel has held the record of being the lightest material on Earth. And producing it is about to get a whole lot easier because scientists have just figured out how to 3D print it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/rfgrassi.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/15\/you-can-now-3d-print-the-worlds-lightest-material-graphene-aerogel\/\">https:\/\/rfgrassi.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/15\/you-can-now-3d-pri...e-aerogel\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YES PLEASE. It\u2019s 7.5 times lighter than air, and a cubic metre of the stuff weighs just 160 grams. It\u2019s 12 percent lighter than the second lightest material in the world \u2013 aerographite \u2013 and you can balance a few cubic centimetres of the stuff on a dandelion head. Water is about 1,000 times as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43027,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739\/revisions\/43027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}