Overcoming the “Impossible” With DNA to Building Superconductor That Could Transform Technology
Could let computers work at warp speed, save energy, and even make trains fly. Scientists have used DNA to overcome a nearly insurmountable obstacle to…
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Nanotube Fibers Stand Strong – But for How Long Under Stresses and Strains?
Rice scientists calculate how carbon nanotubes and their fibers experience fatigue. Up here in the macro world, we all feel fatigue now and then. It’s…
Carbon Nanotubes Could Help Electronics Withstand Outer Space’s Damaging Cosmic Radiation
Space missions, such as NASA’s Orion that will take astronauts to Mars, are pushing the limits of human exploration. But during their transit, spacecrafts encounter…
MIT’s New Carbon Nanotube-Based Sensor Can Detect COVID-19 or Other Emerging Pathogens
The technology could be developed as a rapid diagnostic for Covid-19 or other emerging pathogens. Using specialized carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have designed a novel…
“Smart” Shirt Uses Flexible Carbon Nanotube Fibers To Keep Tabs on the Heart
Rice’s flexible carbon nanotube fibers woven into clothing gather accurate EKG, heart rate. There’s no need to don uncomfortable smartwatches or chest straps to monitor…
Newly Synthesized Chemical Compound Reveals Fundamental Properties of Smallest Carbon Nanotubes
Chemical rings of carbon and hydrogen atoms curve to form relatively stable structures capable of conducting electricity and more — but how do these curved…
MIT Engineers Have Discovered a Completely New Way of Generating Electricity
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…
Carbon Nanotube Breakthrough: Engineering Matter at the Atomic Level
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…
Better Imperfections: Optically Active Defects Improve Carbon Nanotubes
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…
Surprisingly Fast Transport in Carbon Nanotube Membranes Could Advance Human Health
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 Transistor Advance Paves the Way for 3D Microprocessors
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…
Company Hopes to Have Carbon Nanotube COVID-19 Detector Available in June
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…
New Graphene–Carbon Nanotube Catalyst Could Ignite Clean Energy Revolution
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…
Carbon Nanotube Film Produces Aerospace-Grade Composites Without Huge Ovens or Autoclaves
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 Show a Love/Hate Relationship With Water
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,…
Aligned “Metallic” Carbon Nanotubes Convert Heat to Electrical Energy With Higher Power Output
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…
Ultra-Clean Carbon Nanotube Transistors With Superior Semiconducting Properties
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…
Carbon Nanotubes Grown on Old Newspapers
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…
