It works using a mesh made from a combination of tiny carbon cylinders -- known as nanotubes -- and silver wire.

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The Zonda looks like what it is, a domesticated Le Mans prototype, a hard-eyed courtesan in a carbon-fiber corset laced with an assassin's piano wire.

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Imagine a sheet of carbon atoms laid out on a hexagonal grid, like chicken-wire.

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