Carbon nanotubes configured as sponge-like paper can be used as lightweight three-dimensional electrodes without the need for binders or metal foils

Electrodes for lithium-ion batteries

Use of carbon nanotubes enhances efficient heat dissipation in electronics and cooling systems


Heat sink

Use of carbon nanotubes to strengthen aircraft, vehicles, and sporting goods

Low-weight and durable Composite structures

Carbon nanotubes-based fabric has high surface area and electrical conductivity, providing a large surface for charge storage and fast charging/discharging

Low-weight high-capacity supercapacitors

Carbon nanotubes reinforce natural rubber matrix to create high-strength but low-weight materials to increase the quality of motion and life of amputees

Prosthetics components

Carbon nanotubes can be used to block and reflect electromagnetic radiation and heat due to its light weight, flexibility, and suitable electric and magnetic properties

Radio and heat-absorbing coatings and materials

Carbon nanotubes are added into sports equipment to improve the performance of athletes and equipment by adding high strength and stiffness, durability, reduced weight, abrasion resistance, etc.

Sports products

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Carbon nanotubes can be used in structural applications given their strength and lightness, as materials or as durable sensors, as well as energy harvesters to convert mechanical, thermal, or electromagnetic energy into electrical energy

Aerospace

Carbon nanotubes can be used to enhance traditional materials used in automotive industry, including car bodies as well as systems requiring antistatic properties or efficient heat dissipation, leading to improved vehicle performance and reduced wear and tear on components

Automotives (parts and engines)

Carbon nanotubes are utilized in energy storage, device modelling, automotive parts, boat hulls, sporting goods, water filters, thin-film electronics, coatings, actuators, and electromagnetic shields.

Consumer

Carbon nanotubes are used for making field-effect transistors and are applied as conductive layers for the rapidly growing touch screen market. They are considered a viable replacement for ITO transparent conductors in some applications

Electronics and electrical appliances

Energy storage systems can use carbon nanotubes as an additive to improve electronic conductivity of cathode materials or as an active anode component depending upon structural and morphological specs. They have also been used directly as the electrode material in supercapacitors and fuel cells.

Energy storage 

Properties of carbon nanotubes lends to applications such as conductive or mechanical reinforcing particles for plastics & polymers, paints, and epoxies in transportation, aerospace, anti corrosion, as well as air & water filtration

Industrial manufacturing

Carbon nanotubes have unique chemical, size, optical, electrical and structural properties that make them attractive as drug delivery and biosensing platforms for the treatment of various diseases and the noninvasive monitoring of blood levels and other chemical properties of the human body

Medicine

Carbon nanotubes can become a major innovation that strengthens thermal, electrical, and electromagnetic protection systems for critical military platforms and systems

Military

Carbon nanotubes can be used in structural applications given their strength and lightness, as materials, or for coating reducing flow resistance and saving fuel

Shipbuilding

Carbon nanotubes are used to create sporting equipment that is up to 100 times stronger than conventional materials but also 6 times lighter for tennis, cycling and golf.  Several sport applications also benefit from nanocomposite coatings

Sport

Carbon nanotubes are used in medical implants and drug delivery systems

Biocompatibility

Nanotubes for EMI shielding in aerospace and electronics

EMI shielding

Carbon nanotubes improve electrical components and circuits

Electric conductivity

Use of carbon nanotubes enables flexible electronics and sensors

Flexibility

Use of carbon nanotubes reduces the weight of aerospace, automotive, and sporting equipment

Low weight

Carbon nanotubes are used to reinforce materials in aerospace, automotive, and structural applications

Strength

Carbon nanotubes enhance heat transfer in electronics and heat sinks