As a favorite material for scientific researchers, graphene in the laboratory appearance rate, the use rate is very high, but if it took place outside the earth what will happen? Recently, from Europe an international research The team did such an experiment, they were in the micro-gravity simulation environment of this substance has been tested.
If you are not familiar with graphene, here's a brief introduction: It's a carbon-based material that has very good thermal and electrical conductivity and is also very rugged, lightweight and flexible, which makes it ideal for space applications The great potential.
It is understood that scientists from Cambridge University, the European Space Agency and the Graphene Flagship tried to test graphene in simulated microgravity environment due to graphene has excellent thermal conductivity, so in the experiment it is a part of the loop heat pipe The heat pipe, which is often used as a satellite cooling system, transports heat out of electronic equipment by evaporating and condensing the fluid, and the team wants to test whether the efficiency of the system can be changed by graphene.
The initial ground test results showed that this material did indeed work, and afterwards, the researchers put several loop heat pipes - some with graphene and some with no - to simulate a microgravity environment and the end result showed that, Graphene coating is more effective.
Next, the research team plans to test graphene at a satellite or space station.
