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Title    Stretchable Conducting Fiber Provides "Super Hero Capabilities"
Date    Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:30AM
Author    takyon
Topic   
from the that's-a-stretch dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/07/28/019225

Phoenix666 writes:

The list of potential applications for a new electrically conducting fiber—artificial muscles, exoskeletons and morphing aircraft—sounds like something out of science fiction or a comic book. With a list like that, it's got to be a pretty special fiber... and it is. The fiber, made from sheets of carbon nanotubes wrapped around a rubber core, can be stretched to 14 times its original length and actually increase its electrical conductivity while being stretched, without losing any of its resistance.

An international research team based at the University of Texas at Dallas initially targeted the new super fiber for artificial muscles and for capacitors whose storage capacity increases tenfold when the fiber is stretched. However, the researchers believe that the material could be used as interconnects in flexible electronics and a host of other related applications.

In research published in the journal Science, the team describes how they devised a method for wrapping electrically conductive sheets of carbon nanotubes around the rubber core in such a way that the fiber's resistance doesn't change when stretched, but its conductivity increases.

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  1. "Phoenix666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Phoenix666/
  2. "electrically conducting fiber" - http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/stretchable-conducting-fiber-provides-super-hero-capabilities
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