Yep, kudos to Jones on that. First time I noticed the potential of foams was just weeks ago, I found that foams have a certain structural stability, relative ease of manufacturing, good absorption of Hydrogen, a certain amount of irregularity -which seems to be essential- etc. Drawback seemed to methat the structures are comparatively large (>>100um) which distracted me, because I thought of nanoscale structures. On the other hand, nanoscale structures maybe TO optimal, and approach sudden energy release, and asymptotically one would have an explosive device, which is not so desireadable for us ordinary folk.
See here: Nanosized Nickel(or Cobalt)/Graphite Composites for Hydrogen Storage http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp020151j or http://www.hotfrog.ca/Companies/Metafoam-Technologies-Inc/Metafoams-Porous-Electrodes-Show-Exciting-Results-2672 Which is a Canadian(!) company which sems to be at the front of Metal-foam technology. best regards Guenter ________________________________ Von: "Roarty, Francis X" <francis.x.roa...@lmco.com> An: "vortex-l@eskimo.com" <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Gesendet: 18:58 Montag, 13.August 2012 Betreff: RE: [Vo]:nickel foam in use by defkalion Jones Been was WAY ahead on this… sent me links to nickel foam pics and manufacturers several years ago. He was also on about zeolites and support structures long before anyone else so I can only suppose the next big news will be the “back filling “ of this foam with smaller nano particles to make him 3 for 3. Fran From:Andre Blum [mailto:andre_vor...@blums.nl] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 11:02 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:nickel foam in use by defkalion The nickel foam that defkalion describes in their NI-week slideshow seems to be an off-the-shelve product. Funny enough, it is available from a company called ecocatalysis, ecat in short. The stuff is shown here: http://ecocatalysis.com/en/products/foam-materials-foam-metals/nickel-foam-en.html Nice ecat logo! The photo of the foam is the exactly the same as the one used in the defkalion slide deck. Andre
