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Spinning A Yarn With Carbon Nanotubes

BBC News:

A method to continuously spin a wonder material, which is worth more per kg than gold, has been developed by Cambridge-MIT Institute scientists.

Discovered in 1991, carbon nanotubes are just a few billionths of a metre across, but are ultra-strong.

They have been spun before, but directly spinning them into a fibre as they are made has proven very difficult.

The Cambridge way brings the industrial production of a myriad of materials made of carbon nanotubes a step closer.

The technique has been developed in the last six months by a UK team led by Professor Alan Windle at the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI).

"Carbon nanotubes are very, very interesting structures with quite amazing potential. They represent one aspect of nanotechnology," he told BBC News Online.

"Now, suddenly, one can relate this thing called a nanotube into something people can see."

Posted by Timothy Fredel at July 8, 2004 08:25 PM | TrackBack
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