{"id":91621,"date":"2019-06-04T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T17:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/making-metal-with-the-lightness-of-air"},"modified":"2019-06-04T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T17:42:49","slug":"making-metal-with-the-lightness-of-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/making-metal-with-the-lightness-of-air","title":{"rendered":"Making metal with the lightness of air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-metal-with-the-lightness-of-air.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gold, silver and copper are heavy metals, but LLNL scientists can now make them nearly as light as air\u2014in a form so tiny it can ride on a mosquito\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking science, part of a joint NIF\/Physical and Life Sciences (PLS) project supported by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program, created these ultra-low density <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/foams\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">foams<\/a> to give physicists better X-ray sources to employ in experiments that support NIF\u2019s Stockpile Stewardship mission.<\/p>\n<p>The foam is the product of a nearly decade-long research effort by members of the Lab\u2019s NIF and PLS directorates for use on inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments at NIF, the world\u2019s most energetic laser system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-metal-air.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold, silver and copper are heavy metals, but LLNL scientists can now make them nearly as light as air\u2014in a form so tiny it can ride on a mosquito\u2019s back. The groundbreaking science, part of a joint NIF\/Physical and Life Sciences (PLS) project supported by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program, created these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91621","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}