Can you help me.

I am looking for the means to a new substance that I can apply to a spring. I feel it is connected to carbon nanotubes.

I believe I have found my spring substance
Can you connect me to the people who are involved in this substance?

Damascus Steel
Lost to time has been found to contain carbon nanotubes.
I believe my future spring will come from this application.

Damascus steel or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wootz Steel</a> was imported from India to the Middle East

Recreating Damascus steel is a subfield of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_archaeology" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Experimental Archaeology</a>. Many have attempted to discover or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Reverse Engineering</a> the process by which it was made.

A team of researchers based at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technische_Universit%C3%A4t_Dresden" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Technische Universit%C3%A4T Dresden</a> that used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">X Ray</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_microscopy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Electron Microscopy</a> to examine Damascus steel discovered the presence of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cementite" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cementite</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanowires" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nanowires</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note 20</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Carbon Nanotube</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-21" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note 21</a> Peter Paufler, a member of the Dresden team, says that these nanostructures are a result of the forging process.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-nationalgeographic2006-6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Nationalgeographic2006 6</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-sanderson-22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Sanderson 22</a>

Sanderson proposes that the process of forging and annealing accounts for the nano-scale structures.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-sanderson-22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Sanderson 22</a>


Production of these patterned swords gradually declined, ceasing by around 1750, and the process was lost to metalsmiths. Several modern theories have ventured to explain this decline, including the breakdown of trade routes to supply the needed metals, the lack of trace impurities in the metals, the possible loss of knowledge on the crafting techniques through secrecy and lack of transmission, or a combination of all the above.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-Verhoeven-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Verhoeven 2</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-WS-3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Ws 3</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-Lionel_Milgrom_2009-15" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Lionel Milgrom 2009 15</a>
The original Damascus steel or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wootz Steel</a> was imported from India to the Middle East.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-Verhoeven-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Verhoeven 2</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-WS-3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Ws 3</a> Due to the distance of trade for this steel, a sufficiently lengthy disruption of the trade routes could have ended the production of Damascus steel and eventually led to the loss of the technique in India. As well, the need for key trace impurities of tungsten or vanadium within the materials needed for production of the steel may be absent if this material was acquired from different production regions or smelted from ores lacking these key trace elements.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-Verhoeven-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Verhoeven 2</a> The technique for controlled thermal cycling after the initial forging at a specific temperature could also have been lost, thereby preventing the final damask pattern in the steel from occurring.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-Verhoeven-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Verhoeven 2</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-WS-3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Ws 3</a>
The discovery of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotubes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Carbon Nanotubes</a> in the Damascus steel's composition supports this hypothesis, since the precipitation of carbon nanotubes probably resulted from a specific process that may be difficult to replicate should the production technique or raw materials used be significantly altered.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel#cite_note-Lionel_Milgrom_2009-15" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Damascus Steel Cite Note Lionel Milgrom 2009 15</a>