Airship balloons of the future could come from the same material family as your broken dishes. Nano-ceramic materials flex instead of shattering. See the article on Nanowerk: nanowerk/nanotechnology-news/newsid=37325.php Rigid Airships—Blimps to most—can carry much heavier loads than the largest airplanes for a fraction of the energy cost and with a global shortage of lighter-than-air helium, scientists engineers and designers are looking at all kinds of materials that are light and strong enough to hold something heavier than air up in the sky. Ceramic materials are very strong but at the size of a dinner plate your going to get a lot of structural imperfections that scientists can get rid of in the lab. Want more innovative ceramics? We know hundreds, and though you can’t clad a blimp with them—yet—every one is commercially available. Right HERE: bit.ly/1wnXntB
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:32:53 +0000
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