>   A friend pointed this website out to me and thought some folks may be

 interested. There is discussion about making radiators with this stuff and
 if the claims for its performance can be believed it would be very useful
 in our applications. What do you engineering types think?

 > http://www.pocofoam.com/html/welcome.html

Sounds plausible. I have heard somewhere that graphite is a good
heat conductor. PL

James Russell wrote:

This is interesting to me as I've made brake pad insulators to
Band-Aid under-braked
racing cars from boiling the caliper fluid. I use 2 plys of 282
carbon fabric in epoxy
and these have "fixed" the soft pedal syndrome. Alot of Porsches but also some
Sports 2000s, Corvettes, too. So when I read about Pocofoam , I
didn't get it until:

        There are other materials that do exhibit a high thermal
        conductivity value, such a carbon-carbon composites and
        graphite fibers, but PocoFoam has a distinct advantage
        over these materials in that it conducts heat in all directions,
        while composites and fibers only conduct well in one direction
        (the direction of the fiber).

Ten times is a bit much. PL

        Several of the prototype radiators were designed and built by
Performance
        Research in Denver, North Carolina. PocoFoam radiators have proven to
        provide 20% to 30% greater heat transfer capabilities over
aluminum cores
        of similar design.

        The overall thermal conductivity of PocoFoam is comparable to
other materials,
        such as copper or aluminum, currently used in many thermal management
        applications. The density of PocoFoam, however, is only about 6% of
        that of copper and about 20% of that of aluminum.

Regards,
James

 
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