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Monday, June 09, 2008

Paper is now scientifically proven to be stronger than Iron!

Well thats right folks. Your hero Iron man night not be all they made him out to be! The futuristic "Paper man" may be 1.6 times more durable than Iron man! All joking beside, this is some cool stuff.

They have developed something called "nanopaper" which is said to be stronger than steel.

"The final result--published in the current issue of Biomacromolecules--was a paper with a tensile strength of 214 MPa, far above the 130 MPa of cast iron and the previous record of 103 MPa for a high-strength paper."

"because cellulose is the most abundant organic compound on the planet, nanopaper has the potential to be cheaper than more-exotic, expensive-to-produce nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes"

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