CURBED's Barbara Eldredge takes a look at a breakthrough new material that becomes 10 times stronger than steel but only five percent as dense when arranged in the proper molecular configuration.

Developed by MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, researchers realized arranging graphene similar to the structures of porous, minuscule coral creatures called diatomes would make it strong and ultralight.

“It’s a very innovative material because, if we can produce the material in big amounts, we can use that to somehow substitute some of the steel used for construction and infrastructure,” said researcher Zhao Qin in an interview with Fast Co. “We could save a lot of labor to construct infrastructure and buildings because it is so light and so strong.”