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brief communications Super-tough carbon-nanotube fibres These extraordinary composite fibres can be woven into electronic textiles. he energy needed to rupture a fibre (its process. This stage involves unwinding the toughness) is five times higher for spider fibres onto a series of godets that carry Tsilk than for the same mass of steel them through an acetone-washing bath and wire, which has inspired efforts to produce then through a drying path so that they can spider silk commercially 1–3. Here we spin be wrapped onto a mandrel. 100-metre-long carbon-nanotube compo- The resulting composite fibres are about site fibres that are tougher than any natural 50 m in diameter and contain around or synthetic organic fibre described so far, 60% SWNTs by weight. They have a tensile and use these to make fibre supercapacitors strength of 1.8 gigapascals (GPa), which that are suitable for weaving into textiles. matches that of spider silk2 (see supplemen- We used a type of coagulation-based tary information). This is seven times Figure 2 Photograph of a textile containing two nanotube-fibre carbon-nanotube spinning method to pre- greater than the tensile strength of previ- supercapacitors woven in orthogonal directions. Two nanotube pare these fibres. In the original process4, ously reported coagulation-spun nanotube composite fibres were separately coated with electrolyte by surfactant-dispersed, single-walled nano- fibres5