Gidday and it’s great to be inside your computer.

I was wondering if it would, in the fullness of time, be able to use buckytubes instead of the traditional copper for wiring. I don’t know enough about the material to know if it’d be suitable for the bending that copper wire can easily do – I’m mainly thinking of the thin copper wire that has a enamel coating for the wiring in electric motors.I figure if the buckytube-based wire was suitable, it could make for a lighter motor than a copper wire motor would be.

Spiny Norman said:

Gidday and it’s great to be inside your computer.

I was wondering if it would, in the fullness of time, be able to use buckytubes instead of the traditional copper for wiring. I don’t know enough about the material to know if it’d be suitable for the bending that copper wire can easily do – I’m mainly thinking of the thin copper wire that has a enamel coating for the wiring in electric motors.I figure if the buckytube-based wire was suitable, it could make for a lighter motor than a copper wire motor would be.

Interesting notion.

Michael V said:

Spiny Norman said:

Gidday and it’s great to be inside your computer.

I was wondering if it would, in the fullness of time, be able to use buckytubes instead of the traditional copper for wiring. I don’t know enough about the material to know if it’d be suitable for the bending that copper wire can easily do – I’m mainly thinking of the thin copper wire that has a enamel coating for the wiring in electric motors.I figure if the buckytube-based wire was suitable, it could make for a lighter motor than a copper wire motor would be.

Interesting notion.

Each buckytube has what is called a winding number. When you traverse it’s periphery you could come back to where you started (circle) or not (helix). The electrical conductance varies enormously between different winding numbers. It also varies with wall thickness, thicker walls are more conductive than thinner walls. Then there are purity issues.

As a result, buckytubes are not suitable for bulk wiring, but precision grown single tubes could be used for nanoscale electrical components nanometers across and up to mm long.

According to someone i asked in csiro, he buckytubes that have been grown cm long are multiwall with high numbers of defects.

mollwollfumble said:

Michael V said:

Spiny Norman said:

Gidday and it’s great to be inside your computer.

I was wondering if it would, in the fullness of time, be able to use buckytubes instead of the traditional copper for wiring. I don’t know enough about the material to know if it’d be suitable for the bending that copper wire can easily do – I’m mainly thinking of the thin copper wire that has a enamel coating for the wiring in electric motors.I figure if the buckytube-based wire was suitable, it could make for a lighter motor than a copper wire motor would be.

Interesting notion.

Each buckytube has what is called a winding number. When you traverse it’s periphery you could come back to where you started (circle) or not (helix). The electrical conductance varies enormously between different winding numbers. It also varies with wall thickness, thicker walls are more conductive than thinner walls. Then there are purity issues.

As a result, buckytubes are not suitable for bulk wiring, but precision grown single tubes could be used for nanoscale electrical components nanometers across and up to mm long.

According to someone i asked in csiro, he buckytubes that have been grown cm long are multiwall with high numbers of defects.

Ta.