India has developed the world's thinnest material, which is only one hundred thousandth of paper thickness!

【Chinese Packaging Network News】 Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar's researchers announced that it has successfully produced the world's thinnest material, a thickness of only one hundred thousandth of a piece of paper. This new material can be applied to next-generation batteries and UV-absorbing coatings.

According to a report on the website of the Russian TV station on the 5th today, the new material made of magnesium diboride is only 1 nanometer in thickness. One human hair has a thickness of about 80,000 nanometers, and DNA has a diameter of 2.5 nanometers.

Kabir Jasua of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar said that the method of manufacturing new materials is “especially simple”, dissolving magnesium diboride in water and grasping the recrystallization time.

Jiasuya said that prior to the manufacture of similar nanomaterials required a desublimation process, the high cost of this process has limited their application. The new materials created this time can be used to manufacture UV-absorbing transparent films, engineering hydrogen storage materials, and next-generation batteries and nanocatalysts.

Ultrathin materials have always been a hot research topic. Two scientists who made graphene won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2010.