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Nanotechnology
A carbon nanotube is stronger than steel. A rope of them is not — and the reason is worth understanding
A single carbon nanotube is among the strongest things ever measured. Fibres spun from billions of them come in an order of magnitude weaker. The gap is not a manufacturing failure — it is physics, and it explains what nanotubes are actually good for today.
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Nanotechnology
Why materials behave differently at the nanoscale
Gold that is not gold-coloured, carbon stronger than steel, sunscreen that stops being white. At the nanoscale a material's properties stop depending only on what it is made of and start depending on how big it is. Here is why.
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