'Buckypaper' may build the future

It's called "buckypaper" and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but

Buckypaper is 10 times lighter but potentially 500 times stronger than steel

Buckypaper is made from tube-shaped carbon molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. Due to its unique properties, it is envisioned as a wondrous new material

"If you take a gram of nanotubes, just one gram, and if you unfold every tube into a graphite sheet, you can cover about two-thirds of a football field," Wang said.

Carbon nanotubes are already beginning to be used to strengthen tennis rackets and bicycles, but in small amounts.

"Nanotubes obviously are no longer just lab wonders. They have real world potential. It's real."