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Originally posted by Protector
Too bad the costs are probably enormous and the ability to make it on a large scale is 10 years away.
Originally posted by sardion2000
Can Carbon fiber conduct heat/electricity?
Originally posted by sardion2000
Can Carbon fiber conduct heat/electricity?
Originally posted by Frosty
Only in the form of graphite can carbon conduct electricity and carbon in the form of a diamond can conduct heat.
Originally posted by Simon666
Originally posted by sardion2000
Can Carbon fiber conduct heat/electricity?
Yes.
Originally posted by Frosty
Only in the form of graphite can carbon conduct electricity and carbon in the form of a diamond can conduct heat.
Carbon fibers have a graphitic structure and graphite also conducts heat reasonably well, although not as good as diamond. Further, diamond, if doped, can be a semiconductor and hence conduct electricity. Some have proposed of using diamond instead of silicium for semiconductors due to its good heat related properties.
Originally posted by Frosty
Yes, because diamonds are so easily molded and accesible which makes them even cheaper than silicon. I'm sure some computers (experimental) may be fitted with it but for the time being, a long time, I think silicon is here to stay.
Originally posted by Frosty
What do you mean by doped? Adding another element to a diamond would not make it pure carbon as it was before, surely this is not what you mean.
The number of dopant atoms needed to create a difference in the ability of a semiconductor to conduct is very small. Where a comparatively small number of dopant atoms are added (of the order of 1 every 100,000,000 atoms) then the doping is said to be low, or light. Where many more are added (of the order of 1 in 10,000) then the doping is referred to as heavy, or high.
en.wikipedia.org...
Aron Weingarten brings the yellow diamond up to the stainless steel jeweler's loupe he holds against his eye. We are in Antwerp, Belgium, in Weingarten's marbled and gilded living room on the edge of the city's gem district, the center of the diamond universe. Nearly 80 percent of the world's rough and polished diamonds move through the hands of Belgian gem traders like Weingarten, a dealer who wears the thick beard and black suit of the Hasidim.
"This is very rare stone," he says, almost to himself, in thickly accented English. "Yellow diamonds of this color are very hard to find. It is probably worth 10, maybe 15 thousand dollars."
"I have two more exactly like it in my pocket," I tell him.
He puts the diamond down and looks at me seriously for the first time. I place the other two stones on the table. They are all the same color and size. To find three nearly identical yellow diamonds is like flipping a coin 10,000 times and never seeing tails.
"These are cubic zirconium?" Weingarten says without much hope.
"No, they're real," I tell him. "But they were made by a machine in Florida for less than a hundred dollars."
I think silicon is here to stay.
Originally posted by sardion2000
I can already see entire spacecraft made of this stuff further reducing launch costs as well as superstrong body armor and who knows what other applications this stuff will have.
Originally posted by seeuathemovies
taht stuff looks awsome, just hope the wrong hands dont' get a hold of it.