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   MeterMan on December 13, 2021 at 4:53 am

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   Idea: Buckypaper spacecraft and probes

   Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

   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.

   It's called 'buckypaper' and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but don't be fooled by the cute

   Link: https://www.youtube.com/

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   Munch on December 13, 2021 at 12:29 am

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   Idea: Buckypaper spacecraft and probes

   Link: https://news.erau.edu/headline...

   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.

   Sensors in Space: Keeping Astronauts Safe in Inflatable Habitats

   Link: https://news.erau.edu/he

   At first, inflatable habitats in orbit around Earth may sound like a dangerous idea, given that the vacuum of space is littered with, as NASA says, “millions of pieces of human-made debris or space junk consisting mainly of fragmented rocket bodies and spacecraft parts created by 50 years of explo... Read more

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   Clever Dick on December 12, 2021 at 11:27 pm

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   Idea: Buckypaper spacecraft and probes

   Link: https://newatlas.com/good-thin...

   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.

   Carbon nanotubes key to next-gen heat shields for hypersonic aircraft

   Link: https://newatlas.com/goo

   A team of scientists at Florida State University’s High-Performance Materials Institute is using advanced nanomaterials to produce lightweight heat shields that can stand up to the impact of hypersonic speeds. Based on sheets of carbon nanotubes called “buckypaper,” the new experimental shield... Read more

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