Carbon-Nanotube-Sheathed Rubber Fiber Is Evaluated (VIDEO)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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In this movie, a carbon-nanotube-sheathed rubber fiber is being evaluated as a conductive wire in a pacemaker cable. The oscilloscope recording shows that the voltage pulses from the pacemaker are unaffected by even extreme fiber twisting, stretching and bending.

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[Credit: The Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute]

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