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Highly twisted double-helix carbon nanotube yarns.
Yuanyuan Shang,Yuanyuan Shang,Yibin Li,Xiaodong He,Shanyi Du,Luhui Zhang,Enzheng Shi,Shiting Wu,Zhen Li,Peixu Li,Jinquan Wei,Kunlin Wang,Hongwei Zhu,Dehai Wu,Anyuan Cao +14 more
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It is shown that CNTs can be made into a highly twisted yarn-derived double-helix structure by a conventional twist-spinning process and indicated that it is possible to create higher-level, more complex architectures from CNT yarns and fabricate multifunctional nanomaterials with potential applications in many areas.Abstract:
The strength and flexibility of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) allow them to be constructed into a variety of innovated architectures with fascinating properties. Here, we show that CNTs can be made into a highly twisted yarn-derived double-helix structure by a conventional twist-spinning process. The double-helix is a stable and hierarchical configuration consisting of two single-helical yarn segments, with controlled pitch and unique mechanical properties. While one of the yarn components breaks early under tension due to the highly twisted state, the second yarn produces much larger tensile strain and significantly prolongs the process until ultimate fracture. In addition, these elastic and conductive double-helix yarns show simultaneous and reversible resistance change in response to a wide range of input sources (mechanical, photo, and thermal) such as applied strains or stresses, light illumination, and environmental temperature. Our results indicate that it is possible to create higher-level, more complex...read more
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Textile Strain Sensors: A Review of the Fabrication Technologies, Performance Evaluation and Applications
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Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Yarns by Downsizing an Ancient Technology
TL;DR: By introducing twist during spinning of multiwalled carbon nanotubes from nanotube forests to make multi-ply, torque-stabilized yarns, this work achieves yarn strengths greater than 460 megapascals, nearly as tough as fibers used for bulletproof vests.
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TL;DR: This work spins 100-metre-long carbon-nanotube composite fibres that are tougher than any natural or synthetic organic fibre described so far, and uses these to make fibre supercapacitors that are suitable for weaving into textiles.
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Direct Spinning of Carbon Nanotube Fibers from Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a rotating spindle to spin fibers and ribbons of carbon nanotubes directly from the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthesis zone of a furnace using a liquid source of carbon and an iron nanocatalyst.
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Graphene chiral liquid crystals and macroscopic assembled fibres
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High-performance carbon nanotube fiber.
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TL;DR: In this article, the roles of nanotube length and structure, fiber density, and orientation in achieving optimum mechanical properties were explored, and it was shown that carbon nanotubes, which can be spun directly and continuously from gas phase as an aerogel, combines high strength and high stiffness (axial elastic modulus), with an energy to breakage (toughness) considerably greater than that of any commercial high strength fiber.
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