Publication Date:
2011-01-08
Description:
Multifunctional applications of textiles have been limited by the inability to spin important materials into yarns. Generically applicable methods are demonstrated for producing weavable yarns comprising up to 95 weight percent of otherwise unspinnable particulate or nanofiber powders that remain highly functional. Scrolled 50-nanometer-thick carbon nanotube sheets confine these powders in the galleries of irregular scroll sacks whose observed complex structures are related to twist-dependent extension of Archimedean spirals, Fermat spirals, or spiral pairs into scrolls. The strength and electronic connectivity of a small weight fraction of scrolled carbon nanotube sheet enables yarn weaving, sewing, knotting, braiding, and charge collection. This technology is used to make yarns of superconductors, lithium-ion battery materials, graphene ribbons, catalytic nanofibers for fuel cells, and titanium dioxide for photocatalysis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lima, Marcio D -- Fang, Shaoli -- Lepro, Xavier -- Lewis, Chihye -- Ovalle-Robles, Raquel -- Carretero-Gonzalez, Javier -- Castillo-Martinez, Elizabeth -- Kozlov, Mikhail E -- Oh, Jiyoung -- Rawat, Neema -- Haines, Carter S -- Haque, Mohammad H -- Aare, Vaishnavi -- Stoughton, Stephanie -- Zakhidov, Anvar A -- Baughman, Ray H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Jan 7;331(6013):51-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1195912.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21212350" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
