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Science 17 November 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5495, pp. 1331 - 1334
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5495.1331
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Macroscopic Fibers and Ribbons of Oriented Carbon Nanotubes

Brigitte Vigolo,1 Alain Pénicaud,1 Claude Coulon,1 Cédric Sauder,2 René Pailler,2 Catherine Journet,3* Patrick Bernier,3 Philippe Poulin1dagger

A simple method was used to assemble single-walled carbon nanotubes into indefinitely long ribbons and fibers. The processing consists of dispersing the nanotubes in surfactant solutions, recondensing the nanotubes in the flow of a polymer solution to form a nanotube mesh, and then collating this mesh to a nanotube fiber. Flow-induced alignment may lead to a preferential orientation of the nanotubes in the mesh that has the form of a ribbon. Unlike classical carbon fibers, the nanotube fibers can be strongly bent without breaking. Their obtained elastic modulus is 10 times higher than the modulus of high-quality bucky paper.

1 Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal/CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, Avenue Schweitzer, 33600 Pessac, France.
2 Laboratoire des Composites Thermostructuraux, Allée de la Boëtie, 33600 Pessac, France.
3 Groupe de Dynamique des Phases Condensées, Université de Montpellier II, 34095 Montpellier, France.
*   Present address: Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.

dagger    To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: poulin{at}crpp.u-bordeaux.fr

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