Publication Date:
2000-11-18
Description:
A simple method was used to assemble single-walled carbon nanotubes into indefinitely long ribbons and fibers. The processing consists of dispersing the nanotubes in surfactant solutions, recondensing the nanotubes in the flow of a polymer solution to form a nanotube mesh, and then collating this mesh to a nanotube fiber. Flow-induced alignment may lead to a preferential orientation of the nanotubes in the mesh that has the form of a ribbon. Unlike classical carbon fibers, the nanotube fibers can be strongly bent without breaking. Their obtained elastic modulus is 10 times higher than the modulus of high-quality bucky paper.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vigolo, B -- Penicaud, A -- Coulon, C -- Sauder, C -- Pailler, R -- Journet, C -- Bernier, P -- Poulin, P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Nov 17;290(5495):1331-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal/CNRS, Universite Bordeaux I, Avenue Schweitzer, 33600 Pessac, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11082056" 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
