{"id":142535,"date":"2022-07-20T02:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T07:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/rewriting-the-history-of-k-carbon-fiber-manufacturing-with-carbon-nanotubes"},"modified":"2022-07-20T02:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T07:22:21","slug":"rewriting-the-history-of-k-carbon-fiber-manufacturing-with-carbon-nanotubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/rewriting-the-history-of-k-carbon-fiber-manufacturing-with-carbon-nanotubes","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting the history of K-carbon fiber manufacturing with carbon nanotubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rewriting-the-history-of-k-carbon-fiber-manufacturing-with-carbon-nanotubes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A space elevator, a technology connecting the Earth\u2019s surface to a space station, would allow for the cost-efficient transport of people and materials. However, a very light yet strong material is essential to making such a technology a reality.<\/p>\n<p>The carbon nanotube is a material that is 100 times stronger, yet four times lighter, than steel, with copper-like high electrical conductivity and diamond-like thermal conductivity. However, previous carbon nanotube fibers were not ideal for extensive use, owing to the small contact area with adjacent carbon nanotubes and limited length they possessed.<\/p>\n<p>Figure 1. Schematic of the structural changes of carbon nanotubes at different annealing temperatures. (Image: Korea Institute of Science and Technology) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A space elevator, a technology connecting the Earth\u2019s surface to a space station, would allow for the cost-efficient transport of people and materials. However, a very light yet strong material is essential to making such a technology a reality. The carbon nanotube is a material that is 100 times stronger, yet four times lighter, than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}