It's difficult to predict. High performance heat exchangers are an obvious application, but the potential is great for many other things. "Nuclear plants?" S

It's difficult to predict. High performance heat exchangers are an obvious application, but the potential is great for many other things. "Nuclear plants?" Sure. One of the most challenging problems in a PWRs is heat exchange; the so called "steam generators" that circulate primary and secondary water, for instance. They're huge, expensive heat exchangers and their primary failure mode is cracking. A durable, high temperature, high thermal conductivity copper based alloy goes directly to this. Better thermal conductivity could make these devices substantially smaller, reducing costs in all sorts of way, or enable novel designs.