Carbon nanotubes spun into yarn: CAS Institute of Chemistry, Beijing

Professor Minghua LIU’s group has constructed supramolecular yarn from monomers of N,N-eicosanedioyl-di-L-histidine . At slightly alkaline pH, the molecules assemble into flat sheets, which then roll up into nanotubes that are about 40nm wide and several hundred micrometres long.

Yaqing LIU et al., Adv. Mater., 2013, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201302345