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> The team heated the silk fibers at 1,050 °C to carbonize the silk protein This is suspiciously similar to the way that carbon fiber is made. It could be that
by thescriptkiddie 10y ago
> The team heated the silk fibers at 1,050 °C to carbonize the silk protein
This is suspiciously similar to the way that carbon fiber is made. It could be that they are just converting the silk into carbon fiber and the nanotubes are not an important part of the process. Then again, I only read the summary.
- plorg 10y agoIt seems clear even from the summary that this process was used to test the silk fibers, not to produce them. Presumably the control silk and the nanotube/graphene-fed silk were both subjected to the carbonization treatment and the then the researchers tested the conductivity of both specimens.