I thought you guys might be interested in something coming up in the future.
I just picked up some Nanoalum. for work it cost me $98 per gram. If the Nanotube Foam is half the cost of the nanoalum, a surf board blank with cost about .25 of a million dollars. So you better not make a mistake.
Well this caught my eye after I saw Manoa, Hawaii as the origin of the article…
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Cao did much of the work as a postdoctoral researcher in Ajayan’s lab and is now assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Hmmm
Maybe there’s some interesting stuff going on at the incubator other than just software, movies, and electronics…
Never thought that kind of stuff was being done here in Ohwhyee…
Thanks KenZ
Unreal . . .
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In foams that exist today, strength and flexibility are opposing properties: as one goes up, the other must go down. With carbon nanotubes, no such tradeoff exists.
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The thickness of the nanotube foams decreased slightly after several hundred cycles, but then quickly stabilized and remained constant, even up to 10,000 cycles. When compared with conventional foams designed to sustain large strains, nanotube foams recovered very quickly and exhibited higher compressive strength, according to the researchers. Throughout the entire experiments, the foams did not fracture, tear, or collapse
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And their intriguing properties do not end there. Nanotubes also are stable in the face of extreme chemical environments, high temperatures, and humidity — all of which adds up to a number of possible applications, from flexible electromechanical systems to coatings for absorbing energy
Very interesting … I guess we have to wait until this stuff gets down in price like computers? First huge warehouse jobs for millions of dollars, like a 25000 for a 6’0 blank . . . that means it’ll take 10 years for it to come down the line? Or is this just one of those cool things like that guy who lammed a Pu with aluminum skin . . . or that transparent air light foam . . .
Maybe HI swaylockians living near Manoa can hit up the prof for some ‘play material’ to test with
Last time I checked carbon nanotubes cost about €300 pr. gram. Hopefully that’s going to change soon as the guys and gals at Sintef have developed a new reactor that can make nanotubes in kilogram scale instead of a couple of gram pr. day. They call this mass production… http://www.sintef.no/content/page1____6216.aspx
It does have exceptional qualities though. Tough like a diamond, yet flexible… Would you even need a core if you could skin a board with this?
regards,
Håvard