carbon nanotube as shock absorber

SHOCK ABSORBERS OF CARBON NANO TUBE EXCEL AT DAMPENING VIBRATIONS

The new class of nanostructured material has been developed by  a team of scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which will used to reduce the vibrations in mechanical and electrical equipments.

The Rensselaer research team, led by Koratkar, added carbon nanotube fillers to traditional vibration reduction materials to enhance their energy dissipation capability. Adding large quantities of nanoscale fillers increases the amount of surface area, and thereby increases frictional sliding that occurs at the filler-to-filler interface. The result is a decrease in vibrations.