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  • FSU researcher's "buckypaper" is 250 times stronger than steel at a fraction of the weight

    01/06/2006 3:34:05 AM PST · by Neville72 · 86 replies · 4,463+ views
    FSU News ^ | 1/6/2006 | Barry Ray
    Working with a material 10 times lighter than steel—but 250 times stronger—would be a dream come true for any engineer. If this material also had amazing properties that made it highly conductive of heat and electricity, it would start to sound like something out of a science fiction novel. Yet one Florida State University research group, the Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technologies (FAC2T), is working to develop real-world applications for just such a material. Dr. Ben Wang, a professor of industrial engineering at the Florida A&M University-FSU College of Engineering, serves as director of FAC2T (www.fac2t.eng.fsu.edu), which works to...