{"id":30715,"date":"2016-10-03T10:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T17:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/drum-rolled-carbon-fiber-tethers-five-times-stronger-than-kevlar-and-mach-8-spaceplane-can-place-payloads-into-orbit-at-super-low-cost"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:24:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:24:16","slug":"drum-rolled-carbon-fiber-tethers-five-times-stronger-than-kevlar-and-mach-8-spaceplane-can-place-payloads-into-orbit-at-super-low-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/drum-rolled-carbon-fiber-tethers-five-times-stronger-than-kevlar-and-mach-8-spaceplane-can-place-payloads-into-orbit-at-super-low-cost","title":{"rendered":"Drum rolled Carbon fiber tethers five times stronger than Kevlar and Mach 8 spaceplane can place payloads into orbit at super low cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drum-rolled-carbon-fiber-tethers-five-times-stronger-than-kevlar-and-mach-8-spaceplane-can-place-payloads-into-orbit-at-super-low-cost.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Carbon nanotube tethers with a strength of 9 N\/Tex [9 million newton meters\/kg] is over twice as strong as any fibers ever produced before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/94\/web\/2016\/01\/Strong-Stretchable-Carbon-Nanotube-Films.html\" target=\"blank\">In 2016, Jian Nong Wang and his colleagues made nanotubes with a process akin to glass blowing: Using a stream of nitrogen gas,<\/a> they injected ethanol, with a small amount of ferrocene and thiophene added as catalysts, into a 50-mm-wide horizontal tube placed in furnace at 1,150\u20131,130 \u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>They packed the nanotubes even more densely by pressing the film repeatedly between two rollers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/10\/drum-rolled-carbon-fiber-tethers-five.html\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/10\/drum-rolled-carbon-fiber-tethers-five.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, Carbon nanotube tethers with a strength of 9 N\/Tex [9 million newton meters\/kg] is over twice as strong as any fibers ever produced before. In 2016, Jian Nong Wang and his colleagues made nanotubes with a process akin to glass blowing: Using a stream of nitrogen gas, they injected ethanol, with a small [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30715","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\/30715","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60192,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30715\/revisions\/60192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}