A Carbon Nanotube is a tube-shaped material, made of carbon, having a diameter measuring on the nanometer scale. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, or about one ten-thousandth of the thickness of a human hair. The graphite layer appears somewhat like a rolled-up chicken wire with a continuous unbroken hexagonal mesh and carbon molecules at the apexes of the hexagons.
This (left) is what each individual carbon nano-tube would look like, strings of carbon fused together in a hexagonal pattern.Below is the structure of the nano tubes once they are made into thread (like in the video). The tubes hook onto one another and form tight bonds, like if you were to join 2 books page over page and try to pull them apart. Carbon Nanotubes have so many functionalities; being incredibly strong, very, very,very thin AND being a great conductor! Carbon nano-tubes are also being used to grow human organs! They provide an important scaffolding, when coated with a growth medium, that mimics the processes that goes on around our organs as they grow. Their conductivity is essential to this mimicry. Being used to make human hearts:http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/148526-carbon-nanotubes-make-it-possible-to-grow-human-hearts
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