(NHI Nanoblog)One of the selling points of carbon nanotubes is their Superman-like strength. So the construction industry should find a new study from University of Southern California scientists interesting: the tiny cylinders can sustain twice as much force as previously thought.
The findings, published in the journal ACS Nano, features an impenetrable abstract, but is crystal clear about the main point. The load borne by the single-walled carbon nanotubes, the six scientists write, “is more than twice that of previous observations.”
(If scientists used emoticons, one could only imagine what they would do here.)
