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From nanoscale to macroscale: applications of nanotechnology to production of bulk ultra-strong materials

2016/05/16 by Robert G. Clark, Clark, Robert G.
Engineering · Materials Science · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #FOS: Physical sciences #Graphene research and applications #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Nanotechnology research and applications

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.04750

openalex publication_date 2016/05/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Carbon nanotubes have been famous since their discovery twenty years ago for their remarkable physical properties, from strength a hundred times higher than steel, to electrical current capacity a 1,000 times higher than copper. But so far they have only been produced at most up to centimeter lengths. Here are presented some proposals to combine the nanotubes in such a way to get arbitrarily long lengths while maintaining their extraordinary physical properties.

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