Traditionally electrical charges are carried and sometimes shielded using metal but this isn’t ideal- especially if the current has to run past or through explosive material like petrol tanks. The solution: Carbon Nanotubes. Microphase have mixed polymers (extracted from biom ) with their nanotubes and produced stronger, safer, and more electrically conductive materials then their metallic equivalent. According to Microphase, some of the most recent Boeing aircrafts employ this technology.

Here Microphase is demonstrating carbon nanotube production:

“This is a substrate cataylst theres a heater there and a substrate is place on top of the heater and usually there is a biom material like ethanol on the plate and then we’ll make a vacuum in the tube- we’ll amke this tube in a vacuum . You can see how its becoming vacuumed so when vacuum takes place ethanol evaporates its usually an electrical device beside the desktop synthetic? and once the heater is heated up at 700 degress celcius the ethanol is decomposed and the decomposed ethanol reacts with the catalyst and forms a hot carbon nanotubes and 5 or 10 minutes later this black carbon nanotube is formed and the process is finished.”

The whole process takes about 20 minutes.

Duration : 0:2:8