STRENGTH 2 (IMAGE)

Rice University

STRENGTH 2

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Crosslinks between carbon nanotubes in a bundle are just as important as the length of the tubes to the overall fiber's strength, according to researchers at Rice University who built a computational model of the phenomenon.

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Illustration by Evgeni Penev/Rice University

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