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Replacing Copper Wires with Carbon Nanotube Wires in Electrical Transformers
- Source :
- Advanced Functional Materials. 24:619-624
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2013.
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Abstract
- Carbon nanotubes, with their unique physical properties, have the potential to outperform conventionally used electrical wiring metals. Any improvement in this area of technology would be of great importance to industry, the economy, and the environment, as the global need for electrical energy and its efficient transfer and conversion rapidly increases. Carbon nanotube fibers, which are assemblies made purely of carbon nanotubes, can uniquely be used in macroscopic electrical applications including electrical wires and devices where the operation is enabled by these conductors. This paper presents details of the working prototype of an electrical machine, a transformer, where conventional copper wires have been replaced with conducting wires made purely of carbon nanotube fibers.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
business.industry
Carbon nanotube actuators
Electric potential energy
chemistry.chemical_element
Nanotechnology
Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY
Carbon nanotube
Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect
Condensed Matter Physics
Copper
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
law.invention
Biomaterials
chemistry
law
Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS
Electrochemistry
Electrical wiring
Optoelectronics
Transformer
business
Electrical conductor
Hardware_LOGICDESIGN
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16163028 and 1616301X
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........858cb4eb38f625a99848776fabebcfca