They tested the foam using several spectroscopy methods and found that it is mechanically stiff, can shield against electromagnetic interference and is much less flammable than current carbon foams.

Between them is about 4.5 inches of carbon foam, typically used in the medical industry for bone replacement. This sandwich design stiffens everything up—like corrugated cardboard—while allowing the 8 ...

Carbon foam used to be hard to make. Now it's as simple as baking bread and leaving it too long in the oven. ... The toast foam also shields against electromagnetic interference, ...

Most cooks would be dismayed if their baking bread burned, but some researchers have been busy torching loaves to create carbon foam. The lightweight material serves as a thermal insulator ...

The tough, light foam can be used to soak up carbon dioxide or as a material to shield biological tissues from lasers. Credit: Ajayan Research Group/Rice University ...

NASA officials said that it's made of a 4.5-inch-thick carbon foam core that is 97 percent air and extremely lightweight. It sits between two panels of superheated carbon-carbon composite.

In the most realistic tests to date, foam fired at high velocity at the leading edge of space shuttle wing has caused significant cracks in a carbon composite panel. An earlier test on 28 May ...

Parker endured temperatures of up to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit during its solar flyby, relying on a carbon foam shield that can withstand blazing temperatures of up to 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit in ...

Dealing with temperatures hot enough to melt steel, the probe's is lined with a carbon foam shield that keeps its instruments inside at a lovely room temperature. Meanwhile the exterior is blasted ...

The foam has been developed at Rice University. The foam is light and made from two-dimensional molecular sheets. The foam was made using a freeze-drying process, which requires the use of ...