Description

Nanotechnology presents opportunities for creating attractive cable products and allowing cheaper and easier production processes such as cross-linking and fluoroplastics; carbon nanotube and nanoclay for fire-resistant cables; metallic powders in semiconductive layers; and superconductivity and nanoceramics. Many cable materials display fundamentally different physical properties which become apparent only at nanoscale dimensions, leading to smart materials that respond to their surroundings. This paper shows examples of cables that can alert to electric fault and repair themselves when damaged by water penetration.