Carbon nanotube fibers in a jiffy

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The terms "handmade" and "high tech" are not commonly found in the same sentence, but they both apply to a Rice University method to quickly produce fibers from microscopic carbon nanotubes.
The method developed by the Rice lab of chemist Matteo Pasquali allows researchers to make short lengths of strong, conductive fibers from bulk nanotubes in about an hour.
The work complements Pasquali's pioneering 2013 method to spin full spools of thread-like nanotube fibers for aerospace, automotive, medical and smart-clothing applications. The fibers look like cotton thread but perform like metal wires and carbon fibers.
It can take weeks to prepare nanotubes to make long fibers, but the new method cuts that down to size, even if it does require a bit of hands-on processing.
Pasquali and lead author and graduate student Robby Headrick reported in Advanced Materials that aligning and twisting the hair-like fibers is fairly simple.

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Would it be possible to turn carbon nanotubes into guitar stings for an electric guitar?
And if so, what would the possible sound be like?

ZergRadio

When will they make longer nanotubes? That would really be revolutionary, as it could make much stronger composites than carbon fiber.

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Got a complex topic to explain? Let's add background music - that'll make it more comprehensible, right?

Wrong.

neatodd

Ok, on par with our bulk conductor electrically, but where are we landing as far as tensile strength? Ultralight transmission cables are neat, and would solve certain "problems" but a space elevator solves a whole lot more of them. If we can get there and we already have the problem of transporting power along the length inherently handled, it really wouldn't matter if the cost was several orders or magnitude above bulk structural metals or conductors. The investment would be easily worth the incredible potential profits of owning a low cost space port, and some multi billionaire somewhere is inevitably already drooling over the prospect.

AtlasReburdened

Is it possible to dope wood with these nanotubes, to give it more rigidity without increasing its weight?

pkillor

I have been trying to make nano tubes but it is very difficult any help ??

DannZylman

Thanks for the video! So, is that product that you pulled from the glass kind of like a rope/cord of several CNTs? What's its diameter and current tensile strength?

RandyJames