Almost 4,300m 2 of Thermalite Aircrete blocks make up the internal shell of an eight-storey office block in London, chosen as meeting the required thermal insulation. Being lightweight, the blocks ...
Palo Alto, Calif – June 8, 2004 – Lightweight materials may find exciting opportunities in the automotive industry as a means of increasing fuel efficiency. With 75 percent of fuel consumption ...
Engineers have mimicked lightweight yet strong biological materials by creating nanostructured, hollow ceramic scaffolds, and have found that their small building blocks, or unit cells, display ...