Mechanical Reinforcement Solutions Using Carbon Nanotubes From Nanocyl

Topics Covered

Background

Carbon nanotubes have extraordinary mechanical strength properties. Stiffness, toughness, and strength are typical for carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes actually are the stiffest known fiber. They have tensile strength of 100 GPa and maybe even more. For comparison, the tensile strength of high-strength steel is only 1 or 2 GPa.

Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

The toughness of carbon nanotubes has been proved in simulations. Remarkable for such a stiff material, the carbon nanotubes can be doubled over, snapping back with no resulting defect.

These properties lead to a wealth of applications exploiting them, including advanced composites requiring high values in one or more of these properties.

Applications and Nanocyl Solutions

Typical applications using the mechanical reinforcement properties of carbon nanotubes are sporting materials like squash rackets and golf balls, or bicycle handlebars and hockey blades.

Carbon Nanotube Fibres

Fibres spun of pure carbon nanotubes have recently been demonstrated and are undergoing rapid development, along with carbon nanotube composite fibres. Such super strong fibres will have applications including body and vehicle armour, transmission line cables, woven fabrics and textiles.

Source: Nanocyl

For more information on this source please visit Nanocyl

Ask A Question

Do you have a question you'd like to ask regarding this article?

Leave your feedback

(Logout)

Public Question

Private Question to Supplier

Submit

The Benefits of Including Floor Vibration Control for Nano-Tech Facilities over Designing ‘Quiet’ Buildings

Steve Ryan

In this interview Steve Ryan explains importance of adding vibration isolation and floor vibration control to Nano-Tech Facilities.

Quantum Dot Technology In the Display Industry

Samuel Halim

Samuel Halim, CEO and founder of Avantama AG, talks to AZoNano about the advances in quantum dot technology for the display industry.

Pushing the Boundaries of TEM Research with the Poseidon Select

Dr. Madeline J. Dukes

DR. Madeline J. Dukes, an Application Scientist from Protochips talks to AZoNano about their range of products, that are pushing the boundaries for laboratories who in the past where challenged when it came to in situ TEM tools.

Next Generation STACIS Active Piezoelectric Vibration Cancellation - SEM-Base VI for SEMs

SEM-Base® VI is considered to be the next generation in STACIS active piezoelectric vibration cancellation. The design of the SEM-Base VI allows it to support all commercial Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEMs), and also many Small Dual Beam and Focused Ion Beam (FIB) instruments.

From Technical Manufacturing Corporation Vibration Control

eLINE Plus: Ultra High Resolution Electron Beam Lithography, Nanoengineering and Imaging

The eLINE Plus from Raith is the optimum, extensively distributed system for Research Centers and Universities that want to integrate an Electron Beam Lithography system with an open platform for additional optional nanofabrication processes and methods in a single tool.

From Raith

Park NX-Bio AFM: Powerful Nanoscale Microscopy for Life Science

A Life Scientist wants to be able to see how biological materials look like at nanoscale resolution and how soft they are in buffer and liquid conditions. The Park NX-Bio enables that with its highly acclaimed Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) technology and its innovative in-liquid imaging Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM).

From Park Systems Inc