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Researchers produce strong, transparent carbon nanotube sheets 18 August 2005 Numerous electronic, optical and structural aerospace, and this property of the nanotube sheets uses demonstrated; Advance reported in Aug. already exceeds that of the strongest steel sheets 19 issue of journal Science and the Mylar and Kapton sheets used for ultralight air vehicles and proposed for solar sails for space University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) applications, according to the researchers. The nanotechnologists and an Australian colleague nanotube sheets can be made so thin that a square have produced transparent carbon nanotube kilometer of solar sail would weigh only 30 sheets that are stronger than the same-weight kilograms. While sheets normally have much lower steel sheets and have demonstrated applicability strength than fibers or yarns, the strength of the for organic light-emitting displays, low-noise nanotube sheets in the nanotube alignment electronic sensors, artificial muscles, conducting direction already approaches the highest reported appliqués and broad-band polarized light sources values for polymer-free nanotube yarns. that can be switched in one ten-thousandths of a second. The nanotube sheets combine high transparency with high electronic conductivity, are highly flexible Carbon nanotubes are like minute bits of string, and provide giant gravimetric surface areas, which and untold trillions of these invisible strings must has enabled the team to demonstrate their use as be assembled to make useful macroscopic articles electrodes for br