Honda’s lighter carbon nanotubes are faster and energy efficient
Scientists have been experimenting with microscopic carbon nanotubes for a very long time now. Their experience with these nanotubes has opened all new areas of applications and qualitative usage. Thus, I didn’t understand why Honda got into working ways to better it. But whatever Honda’s Research Institute USA has done in collaboration with researchers at Purdue University and the University of Louisville – they have given us carbon nanotubes that are ‘100,000 times thinner than human hair, stronger than steel, conduct electricity better than copper, conduct heat better than a diamond and are as light as cotton.’
The formally new, but potentially great carbon nanotubes that have been worked out possess a metallic conductivity of 91 percent, that’s way up to 20-25 percent been achieved using other methods previously. Because these carbon nanotubes can transport electricity faster and over greater distances, and owing to their sublime thinness, with this new technological breakthrough, we may be looking into the future with more powerful and compact computers, electrodes for supercapacitors, batteries, solar cells, fuel cells, artificial muscles, automobiles and aircrafts.
