What is it about?
When individual tubes in a carbon nanotube "turf" are coated with metal the resulting foam is very elastic; the CNT provides a foam scaffold, while the metal can be used to provide other properties not possible with only carbon.
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Why is it important?
Nanofoams have excellent possibilities for being in technologies such as catalysis and forming electrical connections for flexible electronics, and metallizing them provides options not possible with only carbon.
Perspectives
This was a great opportunity to work with an outstanding undergraduate researcher (Kassi, now a PhD student at Boise State) and graduate student (Mohamad, now a professor at Phonecia University in Lebanon) while staring a collaboration with a former student (Max, who had already become a professor at U. Puerto Rico).
David F Bahr
Purdue University System
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This page is a summary of: Elastic behavior of a core–shell metal–carbon nanotube composite foam, MRS Communications, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1557/mrc.2014.6.
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