Forget Plastics – Aerogel is a Styrofoam-like material made by extracting the liquid component of a gel to form a solid. The result is the most dense, porous solid known to man.

Then there’s graphene, which won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year. Best described as an atomic-scale chicken wire made from one layer of carbon atoms, three million sheets of the stuff would be one millimeter thick. Read about these amazing materials HERE