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yes, but the strength needed to be able to carry all of the armements and strucabilty would need to by higher than any metal i knwo of know. Wha ti thought was what if we melted diamond and and say steel and mixxed them? would that make a new alloy that would be as strong as diamond yet pliable liek metel?
 
Future planes more than likely will be constructed using carbon nano tubes, if for example a harrier jump jet was constructed in the future from such material it would be many several times lighter than what one would be today using current materials.
For example a planes wing made from just simple carbon fibre wouldnt be as light as a plane wing constructed of a multitude of carbon nanotubing, also nanotubing is the ultimate carbon fibre in that its possibly the strongest form.
 
it might interest you to know that a lump of coal, a diamond, the 'lead' in a graphite pencil, are the same item. the differance between these items is their crystaline lattice.
click this if you care to see some 'specs' on it http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/diamond/diamprop.htm

these items are all composed of carbon, carbon is available in large quantities worldwide. and it is a required ingredient to make the metal we call steel. steel is an aloy
look at this btw http://68.21.63.78/eng/material/steel/steel_carbon.htm

diamond is the stiffest, hardest, least compressible(they are compressed coal more or less) it is the best known thermal conductor, and has a low thermal expansion. needless to say, you wont be melting them down.

i know a enough about metals, but i wouldnt make any claims to say them to not be strong enough. Strength comes from design and engineering. You can also temper metal to make it harder. The harder you make it the more brittle it gets.
 
Cool,

Have any of you ever seen anepisode of Gundam Wing?

if you have, what steps could we take to make a "mobile suit"?

Nanotubing? please expand on that.
 
Nano tubes are pretty much the cutting edge of nano technology. Think of it like a straw, a tiny straw. Measured in width by atoms not mm. For example, a carbon nanotube looks like rollwed chicken wire at the atomic level, its tiny. Interesting electrical properties, and a lot of strenght for its size. Some applications that have been considered for it so far, carbon nanotube transistors, non volatile ram, flat screen displays, high strength fabircs, 'smart skins', etc. Pretty much anything made now, can be made better with nanotubes, things even as extreme as a giant elevator into space are being considered.

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_elevator_020327-1.html
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1841030
 
cool, lol that giant space elevator, that'd be cool, take alonmg time to get up it,

Are the nanotubes bendable? like making a shirt out of them? how well do they stand up to say bullets or explosions?
 
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