Newsletter Signup
Where current and emerging technology trends meet.
TecTrendsInformation Sources, Inc.
  | About TecTrends | Email Signup | Contact Us
 Live Search:
Live Search | Articles | Companies | TecTerms | Products
  Loading TecTrends Live Search - please wait... 
View Noteworthy Articles      PRNewswire
 
Article

Title: Nanotube fibers head toward industrial production

Author: Staff Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: InTech, v51 n2 p16(1) Publication Date: Feb 2004
  ISSN: 0192-303X
  Illustrations: Charts
URL of Publication: http://www.isa.org

At Rice University, a new process has been developed that could allow researchers to create continuous fibers out of pristine single- walled nanotubes (SWNTs). The process is the first to offer 'real hope of... threads, cables, and sheets of pure carbon nanotubes.' The process, which is not unlike the one used to manufacture Kevlar, uses nanotubes, which are 100 times stronger than steel at one-sixth the weight. Researchers think they have bested the primary drawback to industrial production of macroscale SWNT objects, which has been finding a method for storing quantities of nanotubes in liquid form. Dissolving nanotubes in strong acid, say Rice's researchers, has allowed scientists to create solutions contain up to 10 percent by weight of pure carbon nanotubes, which is over 10 times the largest concentration previously reached. The new process uses no polymeric additives or detergents. As the concentration increases.

Special Features: Charts

Products:
Carbon Nanotubes

TecTerms:


[Get Copyright Permissions] Click here for copyright permissions!
Copyright 2004-2008 Information Sources Inc.
 


Home About TecTrends About Us Contact Us Privacy Statement Terms and Conditions

TecTrends | P.O. Box 8120 | Berkeley CA 94707 | (510) 525-6220 | Email: tectrends@tectrends.com
© 2006 INFORMATION SOURCES INC | All rights reserved.