The porous tubes also conduct electricity rather well, suggesting that they could find uses in flexible 'textile electronics'. The team call these structures colossal carbon tubes, because they ...

Christened “colossal carbon tubes,” the new structures aren’t quite as strong as nanotubes but are still 30 times stronger than Kevlar per unit weight, and are potentially easier to turn ...

A relatively huge, lightweight carbon tube with good strength and electrical properties is desirable, all right, because it can be manipulated in the far more accessible micrometer regime. But is it ...

There are carbon nanotubes, fullerenes and nano-foams, but now researchers have discovered yet another new type of carbon material: colossal carbon tubes. Thousands of times bigger than their nano ...

But concrete has a colossal carbon footprint — at least 8% of global emissions caused by humans come from the cement industry alone 3. We must decarbonize its production. Concrete is made by ...

Result of winding a carbon fiber tube. (Credit: Andrew Reilley) Carbon fiber (CF) is an amazing material that provides a lot of strength for very little weight, making it very useful for a lot of ...