We report a novel and easy method using the silver mirror reaction to obtain ultralight monolithic silver foams.
The cheap melamine resin foam was used to synthesize the ultralight metal foams for the first time.
The ultralight silver foams have remarkably low densities down to 18.7 mg/cm3 or 99.8% porosity.
The densification strain of the silver foam can reach 80% because of the ultralow density