article_snippet: Professor Giulio Malucelli, a materials scientist at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, has been leading the research.
article_snippet: Professor Malucelli and his colleagues, however, found that when it is exposed to temperatures above 200°C (392°F), it properties change causing its properties to form a foam.
article_snippet: Professor Malucelli and his colleagues findings were highlighted by io9.com.
article_snippet: This process is known as an 'itnumescent effect'.