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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 619-624Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201302497
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- European Research Council (under the Seventh Framework Program FP7, ERC) [259061]
- Trinity College, University of Cambridge
- Royal Society
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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.
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