Publication Date:
2013-01-12
Description:
Broader applications of carbon nanotubes to real-world problems have largely gone unfulfilled because of difficult material synthesis and laborious processing. We report high-performance multifunctional carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers that combine the specific strength, stiffness, and thermal conductivity of carbon fibers with the specific electrical conductivity of metals. These fibers consist of bulk-grown CNTs and are produced by high-throughput wet spinning, the same process used to produce high-performance industrial fibers. These scalable CNT fibers are positioned for high-value applications, such as aerospace electronics and field emission, and can evolve into engineered materials with broad long-term impact, from consumer electronics to long-range power transmission.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Behabtu, Natnael -- Young, Colin C -- Tsentalovich, Dmitri E -- Kleinerman, Olga -- Wang, Xuan -- Ma, Anson W K -- Bengio, E Amram -- ter Waarbeek, Ron F -- de Jong, Jorrit J -- Hoogerwerf, Ron E -- Fairchild, Steven B -- Ferguson, John B -- Maruyama, Benji -- Kono, Junichiro -- Talmon, Yeshayahu -- Cohen, Yachin -- Otto, Marcin J -- Pasquali, Matteo -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Jan 11;339(6116):182-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1228061.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Applied Physics Program, The Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23307737" 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
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