Carbon nanotube springs with high tensile strength and energy density

Meter-Long Spiral Carbon Nanotube Fibers Show Ultrauniformity and Flexibility

(2016) Yuanyuan Shang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Hierarchically buckled sheath-core fibers for superelastic electronics, sensors, and muscles

(2015) Z. F. Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Large-Deformation, Multifunctional Artificial Muscles Based on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Yarns

(2014) Yuanyuan Shang et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

Solar Cells: Core-Sheath Carbon Nanostructured Fibers for Efficient Wire-Shaped Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (Adv. Mater. 11/2014)

(2014) Xin Fang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Storing energy and powering small systems with mechanical springs made of carbon nanotube yarn

(2014) Frances A. Hill et al.   ENERGY

Artificial Muscles from Fishing Line and Sewing Thread

(2014) C. S. Haines et al.   SCIENCE

Overtwisted, Resolvable Carbon Nanotube Yarn Entanglement as Strain Sensors and Rotational Actuators

(2013) Yibin Li et al.   ACS Nano

Elastic carbon nanotube straight yarns embedded with helical loops

(2013) Yuanyuan Shang et al.   Nanoscale

Highly Twisted Double-Helix Carbon Nanotube Yarns

(2012) Yuanyuan Shang et al.   ACS Nano

Super-Stretchable Spring-Like Carbon Nanotube Ropes

(2012) Yuanyuan Shang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fabrication and processing of high-strength densely packed carbon nanotube yarns without solution processes

(2012) Kai Liu et al.   Nanoscale

Electrically, Chemically, and Photonically Powered Torsional and Tensile Actuation of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles

(2012) M. D. Lima et al.   SCIENCE

Biscrolling Nanotube Sheets and Functional Guests into Yarns

(2011) M. D. Lima et al.   SCIENCE

Torsional Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles

(2011) J. Foroughi et al.   SCIENCE

Improving the tensile strength of carbon nanotube spun yarns using a modified spinning process

(2009) C.D. Tran et al.   CARBON

Modeling mechanical energy storage in springs based on carbon nanotubes

(2009) F A Hill et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Carbon nanotube yarns with high tensile strength made by a twisting and shrinking method

(2009) Kai Liu et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Synthesis, Nanoprocessing, and Yarn Application of Carbon Nanotubes

(2008) Yoshikazu Nakayama   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Solid-state spun fibers and yarns from 1-mm long carbon nanotube forests synthesized by water-assisted chemical vapor deposition

(2008) Shanju Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE