A little friction goes a long way toward stronger nanotube fibers
E-Mail IMAGE: Rice University researchers modeled the relationship between the length of carbon nanotubes and the friction-causing crosslinks between them in a fiber and found the ratio can be used to measure... view more Credit: Illustration by Evgeni Penev/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 19, 2021) - Carbon nanotube fibers are not nearly as strong as the nanotubes they contain, but Rice University researchers are working to close the gap. A computational model by materials theorist Boris Yakobson and his team at Rice's Brown School of Engineering establishes a universal scaling r...
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