MIT News – ‘Nanostitching’ could lead to much stronger airplane skins, more

MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal increase in cost.

http://news.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/2009/nanostitching-could-lead-much-stronger-airplane-skins-m…