The material could make a great addition to lighter, heat resistant coats for firefighters or even absorb CO2 from the air as part of a gas mask.

The new lenses, called metalenses, are less than 1/100,000ths of an inch thick and could replace the glass lenses in cameras and imaging systems.

The epoxy compound, far more conductive than other epoxy composites, could be useful in materials for aerospace structures and tennis rackets.

Varying the spacing between nanotwin boundaries at the atomic level produces dramatic improvements in a metal's strength.