Chemical rings of carbon and hydrogen atoms curve to form relatively stable structures capable of conducting electricity and more — but how do these curved…
Tiny Particles Power Chemical Reactions A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity by scavenging energy from its environment. MIT engineers have discovered…
As devices continue to be built on an increasingly small scale, scientists are looking toward developing ways to engineer materials at the atomic level. In…
Heidelberg scientists achieve defect control with a new reaction pathway. The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be altered and engineered through the deliberate introduction of…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered that carbon nanotube membrane pores could enable ultra-rapid dialysis processes that would greatly reduce treatment time for…
Carbon Nanotube Transistors Make the Leap From Lab to Factory Floor Carbon nanotube transistors are a step closer to commercial reality, now that MIT researchers…
How an atomically thin device could become a biotech breakthrough. A technology spun from carbon nanotube sensors discovered 20 years ago by Lawrence Berkeley National…
Researchers developed a promising graphene–carbon nanotube catalyst, giving them better control over hugely important chemical reactions for producing hydrogen fuel. Fuel cells and water electrolyzers…
A New Approach to Making Airplane Parts, Minus the Massive Infrastructure A modern airplane’s fuselage is made from multiple sheets of different composite materials, like…
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are valuable for a wide variety of applications. Made of graphene sheets rolled into tubes 10,000 times smaller than a human hair,…
Solving the thermoelectric ‘trade-off’ conundrum in metallic carbon nanotubes with strategy to bypass trade-off between thermoelectric voltage and conductivity. Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have…
Scientists at Aalto University, Finland, and Nagoya University, Japan, have found a new way to make ultra-clean carbon nanotube transistors with superior semiconducting properties. Single-wall…
Newspapers provide a green, economical way to produce carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are tiny molecules with incredible physical properties that can be used in a…
An Army-funded project may boost 5G and mm-Wave technologies, improving military communications and sensing equipment. Carbonics, Inc., partnered with the University of Southern California to…
The world of aerospace increasingly relies on carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites to build the structures of satellites, rockets and jet aircraft. But the life…
A new, cheaper method easily and effectively separates two types of carbon nanotubes. The process, developed by Nagoya University researchers in Japan, could be up-scaled…
The process could work on the gas at any concentrations, from power plant emissions to open air. A new way of removing carbon dioxide from…
Scientists at Lancaster University and the University of Oxford have created a nano-electronic circuit which vibrates without any external force. Using a tiny suspended wire,…