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Only Japanese Can do It! Author Masalatime Posted 15 August 2008 Comments 192 360 Degree Panoramic Camera Vertigo Soothing Glasses Ten-In-One Gardening Tool Umbrella Head Band The Noodle Eater’s Hair Guard Portable Office Tie Solar Powered Lighter Cockroach Swatting Slippers ONLY IN JAPANMore Funny and Crazy Pictures from Japan. THE RINGS OF THE EARTH , 3DS Max Animation. LF Special Report: 10 Futuristic Materials. Lifeboat Foundation Safeguarding Humanity Skip to content Switch to White Special Report 10 Futuristic Materials by Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member Michael Anissimov. 1. Aerogel Aerogel protecting crayons from a blowtorch. This tiny block of transparent aerogel is supporting a brick weighing 2.5 kg. Aerogel holds 15 entries in the Guinness Book of Records, more than any other material. Carbon nanotubes are long chains of carbon held together by the strongest bond in all chemistry, the sacred sp2 bond, even stronger than the sp3 bonds that hold together diamond.

“Metamaterial” refers to any material that gains its properties from structure rather than composition. We’re starting to lay down thick layers of diamond in CVD machines, hinting towards a future of bulk diamond machinery. Diamonds may be strong, but aggregated diamond nanorods (what I call amorphous fullerene) are stronger. Transparent alumina is three times stronger than steel and transparent. InShare28 Materials. Cloth Physics. 3D Animation Workshop: 3D Modeling Tutorials, Lessons, and Software Reviews. Industrial Design Served :: Gallery. SuperUber | The Creators Project. United Visual Artists | The Creators Project.