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Super Rubber Could Cushion Sneaks, Spaceships (Discovery News)

Quoted: That huge range of temperatures means the new material could be used in everything from spacecraft to car shock absorbers, said Roderic Lakes, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin who studies viscoelastic materials. Spacecraft equipped with this material could withstand the intense cold of Jupiter?s largest moon, Titan, said Gogotsi, or the heat of the sun in space, said Lakes.