DexMat is a climate tech moonshot company creating high-performance materials for a low-carbon world. Its flagship product, Galvorn, has the potential to replace CO2-intensive materials like steel, aluminum, and copper and can eventually displace up to three gigatons of hard-to-abate industrial carbon emissions from the global economy annually.
Wow. Love it. Quite baffling how the chemistry of carbon can twisted like that. I am a pre-med student with straight A's in organic chemistry. This kind of extreme twisted chemistry is beyond most people. I bought a sample yarn from Dexmat last week. I build custom 250-gram FPV helicopters for diving practices, and motor manufacturers (all in China and out of our control) often make motors of this weight class with a factory pressure fitting shaft without bolting for shaft swaps. I have been using Kevlar threads as fitting inserts to allow my own custom shaft to be installed in the motors, but Kevlar often breaks during the pressure insertion procedure unless I polish the shaft ends very laborously and neatly. Now I have this magic insert that can take some abuses. My drone's diving videos are in my channel.
I build custom 250-gram FPV helicopters for diving practices, and motor manufacturers (all in China and out of our control) often make motors of this weight class with a factory pressure fitting shaft without bolting for shaft swaps. I have been using Kevlar threads as fitting inserts to allow my own custom shaft to be installed in the motors, but Kevlar often breaks during the pressure insertion procedure unless I polish the shaft ends very laborously and neatly. Now I have this magic insert that can take some abuses. My drone's diving videos are in my channel.
Sold. I bought a 50-dollar sample. Waiting on shipping. I build custom 250-gram FPV helicopters for dive bombing practices, and motor manufacturers (all in China and out of our control) often make motors of this weight class with a factory pressure fitting shaft without bolting for shaft swaps. I have been using Kevlar threads as fitting inserts to allow my own custom shaft to be installed in the motors, but Kevlar often breaks during the pressure insertion procedure unless I polish the shaft very laborously and neatly. Now I have this magic insert that can take some abuses. My drone's diving videos are in my channel.
Monomolecular carbon nanotube is some of the most dangerous material on earth. Thin enough pieces are so strong they can cut off body parts with no issue.
What about doping carbon nanotubes and wrapping it around a shaped stainless steel or other metal wire? Have you guys tried wrapping/twisting graphene Boronitride carbon fiber with carbon nanotubes, and wrapping that around stainless steel in a composite?
What about taking stainless steel wires and twisting them with carbon nanotubes, and wrapping them with copper doped carbon nanotubes? - How does that perform? What about adding iron dust to graphene resin or finding another binder?
Why not make carbon nanotube fiber similar to carbon fiber witch you can use to create solid material jhust with carbon nanotubes instead Of jhust carbon?
It is difficult to create that much fast enough to use in production. It takes months with good planning to produce enough for that string. Each tube is a fraction of 1 centimeter.
Can this be used to say, connect long nanofiber threads between two ends of a river channel and cut up a big tanker ship and all it's passengers into little pieces as it passes through? Asking for a friend who's trying to save the world from an alien invasion.
Galvorn has so much potential with unlimited applications and can really be used anywhere. So many applications, but will the cost make it exclusive... How does it respond to cold temps? Does become noticeably weaker or compromised in freezing temperatures? Time to do more research on this fascinating product.
So, speaking of composites, any chance we could see a galvorn-boron carbide armor test in the future? And/or titanium or bulk UHMWPE as the composite solid? Or a galvorn-titanium continuous composite bridge test? Perhaps a calculation from such on potential O'Neil Cylinder radius for a futurist angle from present materials?
Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, and other materials will be Necessary to develop next generation energy storage, like FLYWHEEL Storage. Think of prewiring/weaving an O Neil Cylinder with carbon nanotube rope/cables that are 10-12 feet in diameter, that also acts to give added strength/reinforcement, energy transmission, and can also store power at it's core/per node, or using nanotubes/graphene carbon fiber as mesh in graphene concrete, or even a metal matrix (stainless steel serving as the concrete) On Top of that, once we build Large Enough O Neil Cylinders, imagine 4 HUGE Flywheels at either end that not only maneuver the Cylinder in space like, but also store INSANE Amounts of Power. Imagine a Flywheel that Literally DWARFS the Burj Khalifa and makes it look like a Toy in comparison. That's Why Carbon Nanotubes will be necessary, besides designing next generation launch systems that utilize a mechanical advantage to launch Behemoth sized Cylinders
One of the things I thought about for space was using carbon nanotubes and graphene to make O’Neill Cylinders Just like how they make squared weave handbags from plastic or yarn, you could do the same thing with a O’Neill Cylinders, and fill in those spaces between with stainless steel footings (kind of like washers and screws/bolts) you could have multiple layers of carbon nanotube cables like that, forming both ultra strong support and energy storage/transmission. After that, any spaces can be filled in with waste carbon nanotube, graphing, and carbon fiber, like chopped/forged filler. It’s just like weaving a basket, and most of your mass would be from carbon.
