CNT Fibers Surpass Strengths of Materials
24 November 2007, 14:58
Categories: nanofibers nanotubes-wires-fullerenes
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the Natick Soldier Research Development Center, in Massachusetts, have made nanotube fibers that can resist tensile stresses up to about nine gigapascals. This makes the fibers stronger than Kevlar, Zylon and Dyneema, which are used in bullet-proof vests, and the strongest of the nanotube fibers was able to resist stresses beyond any other material. The researchers used a 1,300 ºC furnace to vaporize carbon, which was exhausted out of the furnace to form wisps of nanotubes that could be spun around a spool, into a fiber.
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