[Paul C. Jesup]

Carbon nanotubes can be made from any type of carbon, like coal.

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.

[OSHA]

These are next generation materials that are going to revolutionize the building and eletronic industries.

Only if they can keep them from laying around in the basement because they're afraid to climb the stairs.

[No Longer Free State]

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.

Now, if they can only get them to grow onto the sides of a HMMWV...

[BCrago66]

I ain't no fancy engineer like you apparently are, but if you say these nanotubes can "repair themselves at the molecular level" - isn't that a feature normally found in things that are....alive?

[Hardastarboard]

"I got's ta git me a knife made outa thet 'ere" - quote from John F. Kerry, two days prior to the election.

[Nateman]

Light waves are much too big for nanotubes. However they are strong enough for a really big dream: a space elevator