(PhysOrg.com) -- In collaboration with scientists from the
NanoTech Institute of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) –
CSIRO has achieved a major breakthrough in the development of a
commercially-viable manufacturing process for a range of
materials made from carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes possess a
number of qualities – high tensile strength, high flexibility,
high electrical and thermal conductivity, and transparency –
which have excited great interest in a number of manufacturing
industries including the electronic, automotive, energy and
clothing industries. The flexible carbon nanotubes have been
spun into ribbons that conduct electricity efficiently – and are
five times stronger than steel. Until now, the application of
carbon nanotube technology has been severely limited due to the
lack of a cost-efficient method of producing large sheets of
carbon nanotube material. However – as reported in today’s
edition of the prestigious international scientific journal,
Science – the UTD/CSIRO team recent