microlattice

How Strong Is Microlattice? It’s a real photograph of one of the more interesting developments in recent materials science—a metal “microlattice” that’s 100 times lighter than Styrofoam. “It’s basically 99.9 percent air,” says Sophia Yang, a researcher at HRL Laboratories, where the microlattice was invented. Is microlattice stronger than steel? Recently, engineers at Boeing announced