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Buckypaper: Silly Name, Incredibly Strong and Light Material [Science]
Gizmodo — ... leading to incredible strength: when stacked to become a composite, it can be 10 times lighter but possibly 500 times stronger than steel, but conducts and disperses heat like copper. It's far from being commercially available, but its uses may be as far-ranging as aviation, computers, batteries, military stealth armor, and fuel cells. Specifically mentioned is the possibility that it might dissipate heat from crotch-burning laptops, so fingers crossed it gets here sooner than later. [AP] ...

Buckpaper Could Replace Steel
Eco Geek Latest — Scientists at Florida State University are dreaming up exciting uses for buckypaper, a material that is 10 times lighter than steel, but potentially 500 times stronger when sheets are pressed together to form a composite.  The material is made of carbon nanotubes that have been disbursed in a liquid suspension and filtered through fine mesh to make a thin film.  Its building blocks were first discovered in 1985 (winning those researchers the Nobel Prize), but scientists have recently made great discoveries improving the strength and bonding that they think will lead to consumer applications very soon, possibly within a year.  Buckypaper, which excels are ...