Production targeting 10m2 carbon nanotube sheets

Nanocomp Technologies of Concord, USA says it can now produce sheets of carbon nanotubes that measure 1m by 2m and will reach 10 square metres in area by this summer. The sheets, which the company can produce on its single machine at a rate of one per day, are composed of a series of nanotubes each about a millimeter long, overlapping each other randomly to form a thin mat. The tensile strength of the mat ranges from 200 to 500 megapascals. A sheet of aluminum of equivalent thickness, for comparison, has a strength of 500 megapascals.

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