Yuntian T. Zhu & Quingwen
Li talk with ScienceWatch.com and answer a few
questions about this month's Fast Breaking Paper in the
field of Materials Science, general. The authors have
also sent along images of their work.
Figure 1: Carbon nanotube fiber (yarn) spun
from 1 mm array.
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Figure 2: Comparison of the specific
strength and stiffness of our routinely
produced CNT yarns/fibers (blue filled
circle) with those of our champion
fibers/yarns (red filled circles). The
green and pink data points at the lower
left corner are those of carbon fibers from
Toray (1. M. Kaimiura, “Toray IR
Seminar - No. 7”, June 6, 2005.
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