{"id":22424,"date":"2026-05-04T08:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/?p=22424"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:39:58","slug":"new-publication-in-science-on-intercalated-cnt-fibres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/new-publication-in-science-on-intercalated-cnt-fibres\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication in Science on intercalated CNT fibres"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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MNG researchers develop, for the first time, CNT <\/b>fibres rivalling the electrical conductivity of copper, aluminium cables

Researchers from IMDEA Materials, in collaboration with the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Arag\u00f3n<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (CSIC<\/strong><\/span><\/a>–#UNIZAR<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) and the Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (UPM), have demonstrated a scalable manufacturing process for carbon nanotube (CNT) fibres with electrical conductivity comparable to that of copper and aluminium.


The result is a breakthrough for the future of electrification in aerospace, electric vehicles, drones and related applications, which require lightweight and high-strength electrical wiring.

The research, published in Science Magazine<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, was led by IMDEA Materials\u2019 doctoral researcher Ana In\u00e9s De Isidro G\u00f3mez<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. along with Dr. Vilatela, Dr. Anastasiia Mikhalchan<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and the institute’s Scientific Director and UPM professor, Prof. Javier LLorca, in conjunction with former IMDEA Materials researcher Dr. Valent\u00edn Vassilev Galindo<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.

The paper is the result of a collaboration with the Nanoscopy on Low Dimensional Materials (NLDM) group at INMA, a joint centre of CSIC and the Universidad de Zaragoza<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, led by Dr. Ra\u00fal Arenal (ARAID researcher).

This work, carried out by Dr. Mario Pelaez Fernandez<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and Dr. Arenal, was conducted at the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory (LMA), one of the nodes of the ELECMI Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS ELECMI).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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MNG researchers develop, for the first time, CNT fibres rivalling the electrical conductivity of copper, aluminium cables Researchers from IMDEA Materials, in collaboration with the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Arag\u00f3n (CSIC–#UNIZAR) and the Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid (UPM), have demonstrated a scalable manufacturing process for carbon nanotube (CNT) fibres with electrical conductivity comparable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[794],"tags":[992,966,927,945,993,990,880,936,905,994,991,888,989],"class_list":{"0":"post-22424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-all-solid-state-batteries","9":"tag-carbon","10":"tag-cnt","11":"tag-fccvd","12":"tag-lpscl","13":"tag-mechanical-properties","14":"tag-nanomaterial","15":"tag-nanotubes","16":"tag-nanowires","17":"tag-pekk","18":"tag-piezoresistive","19":"tag-sensors","20":"tag-sinw","21":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22430,"href":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22424\/revisions\/22430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.materials.imdea.org\/groups\/mng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}