2015-05-042015-05-042006-10-24Smalley, Richard E., Saini, Rajesh Kumar, Sivarajan, Ramesh, Hauge, Robert H., Davis, Virginia Angelica, Pasquali, Matteo and Ericson, Lars Martin, "Fibers of aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes and process for making the same." Patent US7125502B2. issued 2006-10-24. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1911/79927.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/79927The present invention involves fibers of highly aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes and a process for making the same. The present invention provides a method for effectively dispersing single-wall carbon nanotubes. The process for dispersing the single-wall carbon nanotubes comprises mixing single-wall carbon nanotubes with 100% sulfuric acid or a superacid, heating and stirring under an inert, oxygen-free environment. The single-wall carbon nanotube/acid mixture is wet spun into a coagulant to form the single-wall carbon nanotube fibers. The fibers are recovered, washed and dried. The single-wall carbon nanotubes were highly aligned in the fibers, as determined by Raman spectroscopy analysis.20 ppengUtility patentUS7125502B2