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    Strong, Light, Multifunctional Fibers of Carbon Nanotubes with Ultrahigh Conductivity
    (AAAS, 2013) Behabtu, Natnael; Young, Colin C.; Tsentalovich, Dmitri E.; Kleinerman, Olga; Wang, Xuan; Ma, Anson W.K.; Bengio, E. Amram; ter Waarbeek, Ron F.; de Jong, Jorrit J.; Hoogerwerf, Ron E.; Fairchild, Steven B.; Ferguson, John B.; Maruyama, Benji; Kono, Junichiro; Talmon, Yeshayahu; Cohen, Yachin; Otto, Marcin J.; Pasquali, Matteo; Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology
    Broader applications of carbon nanotubes to real-world problems have largely gone unfulfilled because of difficult material synthesis and laborious processing. We report high-performance multifunctional carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers that combine the specific strength, stiffness, and thermal conductivity of carbon fibers with the specific electrical conductivity of metals. These fibers consist of bulk-grown CNTs and are produced by high-throughput wet spinning, the same process used to produce high-performance industrial fibers. These scalable CNT fibers are positioned for high-value applications, such as aerospace electronics and field emission, and can evolve into engineered materials with broad long-term impact, from consumer electronics to long-range power transmission.