CNT Adhesives
17 November 2007, 14:50
Categories: adhesives biomimicry
Although carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are thousands of times thinner than a human hair, they can be stronger than steel, lighter than plastic, more conductive than copper for electricity and diamond for heat. There has also been much recent interest in how CNTs can be arranged to mimic the tiny toe hairs, setae, that enable geckoes to stick to surfaces. As the setae induce strong van der Waals forces with surface molecules, many researchers are pursuing synthetic microarrays of CNTs that can do the same. Nanowerk recently published a summary of various research initiatives in this area.
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