In the American Chemical Society journal, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, scientists have recently detailed their findings on how they were able to come up with graphene foam. Researchers from Rice University created the foam using carbon nanotubes and the foam is able to hold thousands of times its own weight. The foam is thermally stable and highly conductive, as you commonly find with graphene, and they say it might be perfect for batteries and other electrical applications.
They estimate that the foam is able to hold about 3000 times its own weight. And you can also make the foam into pretty much any shape or size that you want.
Considering the flexibility that they have brought to graphene with the foam application, it's interesting to think about where this might take us in the future. Graphene has incredible potential to be incorporated into a wide variety of uses and it's rather limitless as to what graphene can be applied to and do for us.
The study involved researchers from not only Rice University, but from Tianjin University as well. Along with the help from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. You can read more details about the study method and results etc, in the link posted below.
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Source:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.6b12503
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170214130456.htm
http://www.futurity.org/graphene-foam-nanotubes-1359032-2/