Nope. It is Silicone Dioxide based so it is considered microporous quartz but you are way off on the shape 
The shape is so you have a gravity feed chamber that is slowed to prevent oversaturation. It is a bummer because it also is the reason thicker things don’t work as well (that and the fact that a vacuum can occur especially at elevations above 5k ft) It does make it so the thinner stuff runs really really well. Normal CCell style elements have vapor that comes out of the middle of a saturated cylinder when the sintered coils get hot. We don’t use this method at all really. I think in comments from people first seeing it I didn’t do so hot on the outer appearance and I get a bit of pushback on the size and look but honestly we tried lots of ways to make it the standard 10.5mm diameter and it just never worked right.
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