Spinning the Unspinnable

摘要

Weaving and spinning can take a weak material like straw or yarn and turn it into a much tougher rope. Lima et al. (p. 51) found that by using caboon nanotubes as a support material, they could spin and weave a range of materials that otherwise are considered intractable to such manipulation, ranging from superconductors to sutures containing biomedical agents.