Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:24 am
I'm not up to date on the conductivity of CNTs. Do you have some links?IntLibber wrote:Note that carbon nanotubes are a practical room temp superconductor. Not a superconductor on the lines of zero resistance, but in terms of many times more amp capacity than copper, silver, or gold (superconductors tend to have rather inflexible catastrophic current limits). It can exhibit metallic or semiconductor behavior depending on the number of rings around the loop. Given the thermal tolerance as well, IMHO they should be making their plans for magnets out of nantube wire.MSimon wrote:The Carbon-Carbon bond is 12 eV. Let us assume for the sake of argument that the Graphene bond is 10X that - 120 eV.arclein wrote:We are just starting to learn how to use graphene. That would eliminate the obvous problems around conventional conductors.
I am expecting this tech to be advanced very rapidly. It starts by been stronger that diamond.
The pulesd energy involved is at minimum 10KV at mega Amps. There will be serious electrode erosion. Even if the electrode can be reformed quickly there will be the problems of contamination of the insulators and the reactor vessel.