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- Title
Super-tough carbon-nanotube fibres.
- Authors
Dalton, Alan B.; Collins, Steve; Munoz, Edgar; Razal, Joselito M.; Ebron, Von Howard; Ferraris, John P.; Coleman, Jonathan N.; Kim, Bog G.; Baughman, Ray H.
- Abstract
The energy needed to rupture a fibre (its toughness) is five times higher for spider silk than for the same mass of steel wire, which has inspired efforts to produce spider silk commercially. Here we spin 100-metre-long carbon-nanotube composite fibres that are tougher than any natural or synthetic organic fibre described so far, and use these to make fibre supercapacitors that are suitable for weaving into textiles.
- Subjects
FIBERS; TEXTILES; WEAVING; COAGULATION; CARBON
- Publication
Nature, 2003, Vol 423, Issue 6941, p703
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/423703a