r/materials • • 6d ago

New plastic made with bamboo blocks 99.98% of electromagnetic waves

https://interestingengineering.com/science/bamboo-waste-makes-plastic-blocks
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u/dcBham 6d ago

No surprising that creating a layer of essentially graphite would interact with electromagnetic waves. People tend to forget how conductive carbon is.

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u/uslashuname 5d ago

Thermally, graphite is insane along the grain too.