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Is this material useful for space travel and also quantum computers?

• westurner 2y ago
  It says mmWave just, though. How is it absorbing instead of reflecting energy? Do things store energy when they absorb [mmWave] EM? As phonons? Twisted Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes store energy; From "LG Chem develops material capable of suppressing thermal runaway in batteries" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41745154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41745154 : > "Giant nanomechanical energy storage capacity in twisted single-walled carbon nanotube ropes" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-024-01645-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-024-01645-x : >> 583 Wh/kg From "Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775612 : > "Sm2O3 micron plates/B4C/HDPE composites containing high specific surface area fillers for neutron and gamma-ray complex radiation shielding" (2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0266353824001374 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02663...