Even if they ran a CPF Special @ 20% off, $500.00 gram retail is still a fairly steep price to pay for a resin filler. That amounts to $227,000.00 per LB./ubbthreads/images/graemlins/broke.gif.
The most thermally and electrically conducive carbon fiber structural materials, which are not all that strong due to brittleness, cost around $5,000.00 per LB. Even these are too pricey for use in components on most commercial products like flashlights.
Nano technology is awesome though, and I like to follow it; having played with nano materials a little here and there. The mind reels! Nano tubes occur infrequently & naturally in cumbustion and are contained in soot-BTW. So due to the pricing, I am speculating that these Carbon Nano Tubes and Bucky Balls will be reserved for making those expensive toilet seats for the military for quite a long while to come.
