Buckypaper spacecraft and probes
Buckypaper could be somewhere in the realm of 500 times stronger than traditional steel, while also being ten times lighter. Ideal for spacecraft.
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Buckypaper could be somewhere in the realm of 500 times stronger than traditional steel, while also being ten times lighter. Ideal for spacecraft.
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Not a new material but is likely to be used for countless applications in the future. Great ideas will come out of these buckyball sheets I guess. Bring it on.
Cool. “Our biggest current challenge is embedding these smart sensors into a flexible and compliant material that can expand as the modules are inflated in space,” Kim says.
Now that sounds like a good application for buckypaper. According to this it can be used as a lightweight heat shield that can stand up to the impact of hypersonic speeds.