Tag: nanocardboard
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Igor Bargatin expands the options for his nanocardboard
Penn Today published a piece on PICS Professor Igor Bargatin and his lab’s accomplishments with their “nanocardboard” including the possibilities of lifting the material using only a beam of light. You can read more about the development here.
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Igor Bargatin Develops Nanocardboard That is Strong yet Bendable
Working with his team at the University of Pennsylvania, PICS affiliated professor Igor Bargatin, Class of 1965 Term Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has developed a “nanocardboard.” This nanocardboard is more than 10,000 times stiffer than a solid sheet of aluminum oxide while keeping the same mass, and most impressively, it can recover its…