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>> Next week will be more modern homes are Kirmani on turning dreams to reality human travel to Mars overcoming materials limitation through the element of ultra high strength and lightweight carbon nanotube based plastics human travel to Mars has created a lot of buzz off lead there have been all kinds of projections speculations in terms of when the humans would 1st set their foot on Mars ranging from the mid twenty's twenty's to the late twenty's thirty's but the question is are we really ready to send humans to Mars the travel time to Mars is going to be about 6 months and there may be no coming back what that means is we need to carry more and what that means is we need stronger space where equals but at the same time we need to understand that carrying as little as a $500.00 milliliter water bottle could cost about half a $1000000.00 What that means is really need to make space where it goes out of materials that a lightweight working on a NASA project my research focuses on using carbon nanotube to make lightweight lighter and stronger materials these tubes are up 200 times stronger yet 5 times lighter than steel but Atlanta we have a problem these tubes are small 10000 times smaller in diameter than a human here we cannot use these small tubes directly to make large structures to do so we add lightweight plastic between these tubes but we have another problem the strong tube and the plastic do not like each other as much as we would want.

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So once the material is stretched the tubes slip out without reaching their true potential and the material feels to avoid this premature breakup I modify the surface of the carbon nanotube at that some group that attracts the plastic and by doing so I create more love up to 5 times more love is what I have observed in the lab so far more love more strength so now not only are we a step closer to boarding that flight to Mars but using these modified Tubes we have materials that promise that we and our loved ones have a safer and cheaper flight thank you.