westurner
8 hours ago
Is this material useful for space travel and also quantum computers?
westurner
8 hours ago
It says mmWave just, though.
How is it absorbing instead of reflecting energy?
Do things store energy when they absorb [mmWave] EM? As phonons?
Twisted Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes store energy;
From "LG Chem develops material capable of suppressing thermal runaway in batteries" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41745154 :
> "Giant nanomechanical energy storage capacity in twisted single-walled carbon nanotube ropes" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-024-01645-x :
>> 583 Wh/kg
From "Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775612 :
> "Sm2O3 micron plates/B4C/HDPE composites containing high specific surface area fillers for neutron and gamma-ray complex radiation shielding" (2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02663...