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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 506209, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/506209 Review Article Fabrication of Microscale Carbon Nanotube Fibers Gengzhi Sun, Yani Zhang, and Lianxi Zheng School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 Correspondence should be addressed to Lianxi Zheng, lxzheng@.sg Received 13 October 2011; Accepted 16 December 2011 Academic Editor: Teng Li Copyright © 2012 Gengzhi Sun et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have excellent mechanical, chemical, and electronic properties, but realizing these excellences in practical applications needs to assemble individual CNTs into larger-scale products. Recently, CNT fibers demonstrate the potential of retaining CNT’s superior properties at macroscale level. High-performance CNT fibers have been widely obtained by several fabrication approaches. Here in this paper, we review several key spinning techniques including surfactant-based coagulation spinning, liquid-crystal-based solution spinning, spinning from vertical-aligned CNT arrays, and spinning from CNT aerogel. The method, principle, limitations, and recent progress of each technique have been addressed, and the fiber properties and their dependences on spinning parameters are also discussed. 1. Introduction In solid-spinning processes, CNT fibers could be spun from vertically aligned CNT arrays [ 19, 20], cotton-like CNT mats Carb