Carbon nanotube coating produces lighter coaxial cables - Materials Today
Common coaxial cables could be made 50% lighter with a new carbon nanotube-based outer conductor developed by Rice University scientists.
The Rice lab of Matteo Pasquali has developed a coating that could replace the tin-coated copper braid currently used to transmit the electrical signal and shield the cable from electromagnetic interference. The metal braid is the heaviest component in modern coaxial data cables. This research appears in a paper in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
