Researchers produce strong, transparent carbon nanotube sheets

Numerous electronic, optical and structural uses demonstrated; Advance reported in Aug. 19 issue of journal Science

University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) nanotechnologists and an Australian colleague have produced transparent carbon nanotube sheets that are stronger than the same-weight steel sheets and have demonstrated applicability for organic light-emitting displays, low-noise electronic sensors, artificial muscles, conducting appliqués and broad-band polarized light sources that can be switched in one ten-thousandths of a second.