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Nanostitching May Lead to Stronger Airplanes Saturday, March 07, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Nanotechnology   
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MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal increase in cost. Moreover, advanced composites reinforced with nanotubes are also more than one million times more electrically conductive than their counterparts without nanotubes, meaning aircraft built with such materials would have greater protection against damage from lightning. (source: web.mit.edu)
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