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Heat-Conducting Carbon Foam

Posted by michael on from the stay-puf dept.

anvilmark writes "ABCNews has an article about a new carbon based thermal conducting foam. Very pricey to produce but has 4-5 times the efficiency of copper at 1/5th the weight of aluminum. ORNL technical documentation available here and here. Sounds like the perfect heat sink shim to me."

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  1. I hope... by mi · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...noone makes a batch of cofee cups from this material by mistake...
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  2. Hmm by sulli · · Score: 2, Funny

    What if they made Peeps out of this stuff?

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  3. Oh come on, we had these when I was a kid.. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 3, Funny



    "Themoconductive carbon foam"? Puh-leaze. We had this shit when I was a kid. Magic Snakes -- You put em on the sidewalk and light them on fire. Just like the one that nearly wiped out South Park last 4th of July. :)

    We were swimming in the stuff! ;)

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  4. Nice. by zapfie · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can see many potential uses for this, including shaving foam and marshmallows that make your cocoa cold.

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  5. hmmm... by nEoN+nOoDlE · · Score: 4, Funny

    carbon based thermal conducting foam, huh? I wonder if I can encase someone in this stuff and hang em up on the wall in my desert palace...

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  6. Carbon this, carbon that by Tomster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have you noticed how it seems like nearly every recent significant advance in materials sciences and engineering is based on carbon? Sheesh, pretty soon they'll be announcing carbon based life forms....

  7. Re:I am utterly amazed.... by Dirtside · · Score: 3, Funny
    leaving the bottom-rung stallmanite slashdrones
    Yeah, but you're still here. I blame the hydrocodone. :)
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