Carbon Nanotubes


Orange juice, water, grape juice on a MWNT sheet.
 MWNT sheets are strong, lightweight (0.0015 g/cm3), transparent, and electrically conducting. They can support millimeter-sized liquid droplets that are 50,000 times their own weight.

When sandwiched between plastic sheets, MWNT sheets can be bent with no change in electrical conductivity; this is important for flexible electronic circuits.

MWNT sheets strongly absorb microwave radiation as evidenced by their welding two 5-mm-thick Plexiglas plates in a microwave oven being used to boil water.

An OLED that uses a transparent MWNT sheet as the hole-injecting electrode. The sheet covers the entire picture area but only the Ca/Al cathode is emitting.

Mei Zhang,Shaoli Fang, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Sergey B. Lee, Ali E. Aliev, Christopher D. Williams, Ken R. Atkinson, Ray H. Baughman, "Strong, Transparent, Multifunctional, Carbon Nanotube Sheets," Science, 19 August 2005, 1215-1219.