Nanotubes for electronics.

By P. Collins, Phaedon Avouris. Scientific American, 2000

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Carbon nanotubes – Production and industrial applications (2007, background): “They can produce electric current carrying capacity 1000 times higher than copper wires [36].”
Fiber waviness in nanotube-reinforced polymer composites-I: Modulus predictions using effective nanotube properties (2003, background): “Besides their extremely small size, it has been suggested that carbon nanotubes are half as dense as aluminum, have tensile strengths 20 times that of high strength steel alloys, have current carrying capacities 1000 times that of copper, and transmit heat twice as well as pure diamond [1].”
Important issues in a molecular dynamics simulation for characterising the mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes (2004, background): “For example, they have a tensile strength twenty times that of high strength steel alloys and have a current carrying capacity 1000 times that of copper [10].”