9 Fascinating Materials of the Future
Gone are the days of boring brick and steel—these building materials are outta this world. Join Michael Aranda for this new episode of SciShow and learn about some awesome materials that look straight out of science fiction, but actually exist today! SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Coda Buchanan, Lucy McGlasson, Accalia Elementia, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Saul, Kathy & Tim Philip, Kevin Bealer, Christopher Collins, Thomas J., charles george, Andreas Heydeck, Patrick D. Ashmore, Justin Lentz, Will and Sonja Marple, Ed Shelley, Chris Peters, Tim Curwick, Philippe von Bergen, Fatima Iqbal. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Aerogels http://www.aerogel.org/?p=3 http://energy.lbl.gov/ecs/aerogels/ http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/aerogels.html http://www.britannica.com/science/gel Invisibility Cloaks http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6254/1310 http://time.com/4042506/invisibility-cloak/ http://bgr.com/2016/03/15/invisibility-cloak-harry-potter/ http://www.nature.com/articles/srep21921 http://www.cnet.com/news/invisibility-cloak-uses-lenses-to-bend-light/ http://www.techtimes.com/articles/86479/20150922/invisibility-cloak-technology-invented-by-uc-berkeley-scientists-you-cant-wear-it.htm Super Waterproofing http://phys.org/news/2015-12-superhydrophobic-coating-price.html http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201304006/abstract http://www.businessinsider.com/a-new-super-waterproof-material-makes-water-drops-bounce-off-it-2013-10 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021979713002865 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25004942 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7476/full/nature12740.html Bulk Diamonds/Aggregated Diamond Nanorods http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v421/n6923/full/421599b.html http://www.esrf.eu/news/spotlight/spotlight25nanorods/index_html;jsessionid=CE744BDF023E441D1573798CD0C72B50 http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2005/aug/26/diamonds-are-not-forever http://www.iom3.org/materials-world-magazine/feature/2013/jun/04/material-month-aggregated-diamond-nanorods-carbon Metallic Glasses http://engineering.jhu.edu/materials/research-projects/metallic-glasses/#.Vuns_vkrKUk http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v14/n6/full/nmat4297.html http://www.zmescience.com/science/chemistry/metal-glass-about-howto-0423423/ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261306911006510 http://discovermagazine.com/2004/apr/glassy-metals http://physics.aps.org/story/v15/st20 Metallic Foams http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0012/Banhart-0012.html http://www.metalfoam.net/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00554981#page-1 Transparent Aluminum http://science.howstuffworks.com/transparent-aluminum-armor.htm http://www.tssbulletproof.com/optically-clear-aluminum-provides-bulletproof-protection/ http://ceramics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/march13_cover-story.pdf Light-transmitting Concrete http://illumin.usc.edu/printer/245/translucent-concrete-an-emerging-material/ http://www.cement.org/for-concrete-books-learning/materials-applications/architectural-and-decorative-concrete/light-transmitting-concrete Regenerating Concrete http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jun/29/the-self-healing-concrete-that-can-fix-its-own-cracks http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/14/tech/bioconcrete-delft-jonkers/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erik_Schlangen/publication/222648872_Application_of_bacteria_as_self-healing_agent_for_the_development_of_sustainable_concrete/links/0f3175399728a72306000000.pdf
