{"id":16081,"date":"2020-08-27T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T08:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.compositestoday.com\/?p=16081"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:21:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T08:21:44","slug":"no-limit-yet-for-carbon-nanotube-fibres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.compositestoday.com\/2020\/08\/no-limit-yet-for-carbon-nanotube-fibres\/","title":{"rendered":"No Limit Yet for Carbon Nanotube Fibres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Carbon nanotube fibres made at Rice University<\/a> are now stronger than Kevlar and are inching up on the conductivity of copper. The Rice lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer\u00a0Matteo Pasquali\u00a0reported in\u00a0Carbon\u00a0it has developed its strongest and most conductive fibres yet, made of long carbon nanotubes through a wet-spinning process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the new study led by Rice graduate students Lauren Taylor and Oliver Dewey, the researchers noted that wet-spun carbon nanotube fibres, which could lead to breakthroughs in a host of medical<\/a> and materials applications, have doubled in strength and conductivity every three years, a trend that spans almost two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While that may never mimic Moore\u2019s Law, which set a benchmark for computer chip advances for decades, Pasquali and his team are doing their part to advance the\u00a0method they pioneered\u00a0to\u00a0make carbon nanotube fibres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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