Scientists from the Karlsruhe Technological Institute, which in Germany, conducted the first tests of fundamentally new dense and light building materials. In view of its microstructure, the material received unusually high strength characteristics, as well as the degree of resistance to deformation.
Despite the fact that the density of the new building material was slightly lower compared to the density of water, it is more stable and durable than steel or aluminum. Scientists drew the idea and inspiration for obtaining new building material from the shell of honey honeycombs, as well as the frame structure of animals and human bones.
According to the latest information provided by the researchers, the beam of new material has a thickness of 10 micrometers. When bending the walls of the material, it is quite poorly subjected to any physical deformation and at the same time does not lose its stability. It was experimentally possible that the material is able to withstand the load of 28 kilograms for each square millimeter without problems.
To create such light building material, researchers had to use modern laser three -dimensional stereolithography. Initially, the laser conducts microstructure polymerization based on photosensitive material. Then, through the besieging on its surface, a specialized ceramic material is carried out. To check the stability of the final version of the material, it was compressed in special press forms. Inventors pay attention to the fact that the new version of the building material can be used as a certain shock absorber or isolation.
But in construction, as before, they use classic building materials: aluminum profile from /, wood, metal, plastic, glass.