{"id":270,"date":"2006-06-08T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2006-06-10T00:50:06","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T05:50:06","slug":"additional-thoughts-from-dr-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Additional thoughts from Dr. Edwards&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further thoughts from Dr. Edwards (again via Andy Price)\u00a0on the Pugno study:<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The supportive interaction between the CNTs already exists in several forms:<br \/>\n1) van de Walls forces<br \/>\n2) physical &#8220;knotting&#8221; or twisting like cotton or any other fiber and<br \/>\n3) functionalized nanotubes<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Any one of these could be used to cross link CNTs and effectively transfer loads and greatly reduce the overall strength reduction of any weak CNT.\u00a0 There are a couple other options as well, but these have been shown to work.\u00a0 By not including this in a discussion of a macroscopic material, Pugno is insuring that the material will fall apart.\u00a0 Compare a raw mat of cotton to a spun cotton thread &#8211; the performance is a little different.\u00a0 I can assure everyone that raw cotton fibers are not perfect throughout their length (much less so than quality CNTs) but strong threads can still be made from them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further thoughts from Dr. Edwards (again via Andy Price)\u00a0on the Pugno study:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;The supportive interaction between the CNTs already exists in several forms: 1) van de Walls forces 2) physical &#8220;knotting&#8221; or twisting like cotton or any other fiber and 3) functionalized nanotubes Any one of these could be used to cross link CNTs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}