Nanotube fibre production in a spin
by
Laura Howes, RSC
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last modified
01-21-13 06:29 AM
Copyright 2013, RSC.
No, that light bulb isn't floating in thin air, it's suspended by two 24μm thick fibres spun from carbon nanotubes (CNTs). An international collaboration led by Matteo Pasquali, at Rice University in the US, has developed a method of manufacturing high-performance CNT fibres using wet spinning. More...
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/01/carbon-nanotube-fibres-wetspinning
