I'm not sure why, but I've always thought it interesting that radiation scales as a fourth power. It's unusual to see forth power relationships in fundamental scientific processes.
Most materials scale with T^4. You would need a very weird radiance spectrum to do anything different.
That said, we are talking about something that has a weird radiance spectrum as a selling point, so, expect some deviation from the standard T^4 curve.
It's pretty durable on its own. That being said, as we've moved to the product stage we've packaged it in a way to protect it further.