Carbon Nanotubes
Major Market Players
Carbon nanotubes are the fastest growing segment in the nanomaterial technology market across the globe. One research study states that the CNT sales will grow at 12.9% annually due to increasing supply capacity by major players and high demand from the industries, including chemical, polymer, battery, and capacitor industries. They study predicts that the CNT market will be worth US$3.3 Billion by 2016.[citeration 12]
Technology Leaders
Commercial Technology Adopters
Current use and application of nanotubes has mostly been limited to the use of bulk nanotubes, which is a mass of rather unorganized fragments of nanotubes. Bulk nanotube materials may never achieve a tensile strength similar to that of individual tubes, but such composites may, nevertheless, yield strengths sufficient for many applications. Bulk carbon nanotubes have already been used as composite fibers in polymers to improve the mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties of the bulk product.
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