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To give you guys an idea of how strong carbon nanotubes are, it makes titanium look like tin foil. It is from a strength-to-weight ratio to steel, carbon nanotubes are 600 times stronger than steel.
And that's without adding alloys and ceramics to it, which can make it hundreds of times stronger than that.
And here is the kicker, under the right conditions, carbon nanotubes can repair themselves at the molecular level.
Then there are silicon nanotubes which are 50 times smaller than carbon nanotubes that are so small that it can actually carry lightwaves like modern cables can transfer electric impluses, for light-process based computer with artifical diamonds for CPUs.
These are next generation materials that are going to revolutionize the building and eletronic industries.