Using Linkam’s Modular Force Stage (MFS), a team of researchers at Imperial College London, UK added geo-inspired double-walled nanotubes to a polymer matrix in order to improve the tensile properties.
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Inorganic Nanotube Mesophases Enable Strong Self-Healing Fibers Won Jun Lee, Erwan Paineau, David Benbow Anthony, Yulin Gao, Hannah Siobhan Leese, Stéphan Rouzière, Pascale Launois, and Milo Sebastian Peter Shaffer* ACS Nano 2020, 14, 5, 5570–5580 Publication Date:April 7, 202