Scalable Synthesis of Carbon-Based Materials
Carbon fiber could potentially replace steel in many situations and sequester atmospheric carbon instead of creating it if we could make enough of it cheaply enough.
Arbitrarily long carbon nanotubes would enable tethers with tensile strength near the limits of physics which unlock things like space elevators.Scaling the production of conductive carbon materials could potentially replace copper.
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While many promising materials have been discovered in the lab, current synthesis methods are often too expensive to produce these materials in sufficient quantities. Some examples of novel materials that would be highly enabling include:
• Low activation, thermally conductive materials that are r...