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Actually, there are two candidates.

1. carbon nanofiber

2. diamond whisker fibers.

#1 current problem is length. We don't yet know how to make a fiber longer than a few millimeters at a time.

#2 is even shorter at this time, though tests show it even stronger than nanofibers.

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