Now researchers have coated conventional cotton thread with highly conductive, biosensing carbon nanotubes. The threads can be woven into fabrics that are lightweight and wearable but act as ...

Thomas Edison famously tried hundreds of materials and failed thousands of times before discovering that carbonized cotton thread burned long and bright in an incandescent light bulb. Experiments ...

Carbon nanotube cotton (the greyish areas ... where individual CNTs need to be consolidated into fibers/threads. By using a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) approach, individual CNTs with a length ...

Researchers from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) have developed a cotton thread bathed in graphene that uses egg ... the graphene molecule provides strong cohesion between its carbon atoms ...