Strong, Light, Multifunctional Fibers of Carbon Nanotubes with Ultrahigh Conductivity
Abstract
Shorter carbon nanotubes are easier to make, but, when assembled into fibers, the resulting fiber properties are much poorer than might be predicted by theory. Conversely, longer carbon nanotubes have much better properties but are harder to process. Behabtu et al. (p. 182 ) combined the best of both worlds through scalable wet spinning method, in which they dissolved longer carbon nanotubes and then spun them into fibers that showed excellent strength, stiffness, and thermal conductivity.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jan 11, 2013
- Source ID
- 10.1126/science.1228061
Entities
People
- Anson W. K. Ma
- Benji Maruyama
- Colin C. Young
- Dmitri E. Tsentalovich
- E. Amram Bengio
- J. B. Ferguson
- Jorrit J. De Jong
- Junichiro Kono
- Marcin J. Otto
- Matteo Pasquali
- Natnael Behabtu
- Olga Kleinerman
- Ron E. Hoogerwerf
- Ron F. Ter Waarbeek
- Steven B. Fairchild
- Xuan Wang
- Yachin Cohen
- Yeshayahu Talmon
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- Rice University
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Teijin Aramid
- United States Department of Defense