New material for heatsinks, plastic!

[The Dane]

It will be interesting when this becomes avaliable for fettlers like us:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/new-polymer-conducts-better-metals-only-one-direction

One way thermo coupler.

 

[Lynx_Arc]

another interesting discovery but the article leads me to think it will never be useful for the general public probably only the military or space program as I would bet they cannot get the cost down to useful levels.