Lightweight and high strength are perpetual pursuits for fiber materials. In response to the application requirements of fibers in high strain rate scenarios such as battlefield protection and space ...

Carbon nanotubes have been predicted as game-changing structural materials due to their outstanding theoretical strength per weight (Fig. 1a). They have even encouraged the construction of a space ...

A forest of pure-carbon nanostructures, grown and harvested from a liquid-metal catalytic surface, could find applications ranging from high-performance rubber and resins, to next-generation batteries ...

Fabrics that resist knife cuts can help prevent injuries and save lives. But a sharp enough knife or a very forceful jab can get through some of these materials. Now, researchers report in ACS Applied ...

In a groundbreaking development, scientists have engineered a bulletproof material that leverages the power of carbon nanotubes to deliver a performance three times stronger than Kevlar. This ...

Lockheed Martin reports that a radiation-resistant version of NRAM™ carbon-nanotube-based memory, developed jointly by Lockheed Martin and Nantero, was tested on a recent Space Shuttle mission. The ...

In 1991, Sumio Iijima’s discovered multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the insoluble material of arc-burned graphite rods and Mintmire, Dunlap, and White’s independent prediction that if single-walled ...

The media have widely spread the idea that carbon nanotubes are about 100 times stronger than steel and several times lighter. But they rarely mentioned that these nanotubes often break without ...

Carbon nanotube (CNT) forests are a solution to scaling up the production of CNTs, which are becoming a staple in many industries. However, even the best catalyst used to grow these forests ...

Nagoya, Japan - Single-walled carbon nanotubes should theoretically be extremely strong, but it remains unclear why their experimental tensile strengths are lower and vary among nanotubes. A team at ...