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Carbon nanotube yarns

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A CNT yarn is a collection of interlocked CNTs which form a long and continuous fiber of macroscopic scale. CNT yarns of more than a kilometer are now available so that they have been drawing ever-growing attention from the scientific community. In principle, CNT yarns can inherit the excellent electrical, mechanical and chemical properties of CNTs provided they are produced perfectly. In this perspective review, the production methods of CNT yarns are extensively investigated and reported in detail. Although CNT yarns have a great potential to revolutionize our future, it can only be possible by improving their essential material properties such as tensile strength and edectrical conductivity.

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Kun-Hong Lee is a Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). He received his B.S. (Seoul National university, Korea), M.S. (KAIST, Korea) and Ph.D. (University of Delaware, U.S.A.) all in Chemical Engineering, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Delaware. In 1987, he started his career as an assistant professor of POSTECH, and has been staying at the same school since then. He was appointed as the Director of the National Center for Nanomaterials Technology (NCNT) in 2005, and is now serving as the Research Director of the NCNT. He was the Chairperson of the Thermodynamics Division (2007) and the Materials Division (2008–2009) of the KIChE. He is a receipient of the Simgang Award from KIChE, and the invited speaker at NASA (Langley and JPL), US Air Force Research Laboratory, UCLA, UC Irvine, UT Dallas and U. Penn. He is a popular invitee at various conferences because of his unique research ideas on nanomaterials.

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Park, J., Lee, KH. Carbon nanotube yarns. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 29, 277–287 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-012-0016-1

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