Multi Wall Carbon Nanotubes

MWNTs are highly conductive when properly integrated into a composite structure. The outer wall alone is conducting, the inner walls are not significant to conductivity. MWNTs have a high aspect ratio with lengths typically more than 100 times the diameter, and much higher. Their performance and application is based not just on aspect ratio, but also on the degree of entanglement and the straightness of the tubes, which in turn is a function of the both the degree and dimension of defects in the tubes.