Crew-6 Manufactures Graphene Aerogel in Space, Where Gravity Won’t Ruin It
NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg works on an experiment from Stanford University that aims to synthesize graphene aerogel in space.
Image credit: NASA.
A new experiment on board the International Space Station aims to produce higher-quality graphene aerogel in microgravity conditions.
In late August, the SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts on the space station at that time finished work on an investigation co-led by Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. The goal was to produce a graphene aerogel, a light and high-density structure that can be used for numerous applications, in orbit to determine whether doing so is feasible and results in a better material than that manufactured in Earth gravity conditions.
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