Valdevit, team win Popular Mechanics award for world’s lightest metal
UCI mechanical & aerospace engineer Lorenzo Valdevit and fellow researchers at HRL Laboratories LLC, along with the California Institute of Technology, have won a 2012 Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics for their creation of a micro-lattice metal. The material is lightweight enough to sit atop a dandelion’s fluffy seeds without damaging them (pictured) yet is [...]
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