New study highlights benefits of CNTs
CNTs are of great interest to the semiconductor industry because of their unique electrical, thermal and mechanical properties. They have amazing electrical properties and can enable ballistic electron transport and can transport and carry huge currents. However, they have so far been limited by the practical limits of putting them in manufacturing.
CNTs' strength is that by mixing it with polymer composites, it creates a new material with a longer-lived strain-resistance relationship. To move scientific discoveries from the laboratory to commercial products, a completely different set of fundamental research issues must be addressed, primarily those related to viable commercial scale-up of production volumes, process robustness and reliability, and integration of nanoscale structures and devices into micro, meso and macro-scale products. Pressure sensing CNTs produced in high volume could help invaluably in that regard.
