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RE: Science: How Seedless Fruit Propagate and A 2000°F (1204°C) Material That You Can Safely Touch with your Bare Hands
Interesting read. Its understandable that for space shuttle, the kind of material needed would be light weight with low thermal conductivity, and this one fits perfectly into it. Ceramics are a tad too heavy to be used as furnace linings. If this material could be made a bit more stable for long term, we could see even everyday equipments requiring high temperatures being made of this.
Are there alternatives
I even doubt if the conventional ceramics will suffice apart from its weight. The ability to withstand two different extreme temperature may send a ceramic cracking and go brittle.
I have no idea if they use the material for any other use, given its current cost.