• Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are cylinders of one or more layers of graphene (lattice). (wikipedia.org)
  • One approach they are trying involves designing circuits based on electronic fibers, known as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), instead of rigid silicon chips. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The challenge facing the Stanford team was that CNTs are predominately P-type semiconductors and there was no easy way to dope these carbon filaments to add N-type characteristics. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The mechanism of the one-order-of-magnitude increase in the density of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) achieved by a recently developed thermal chemical vapor deposition process was studied using synchrotron radiation spectroscopic techniques. (iucr.org)
  • The diameter of on-market CNTs range from near 1nm to several hundred, taking the CNTs from being singled-walled (SWCNT) towards multi-walled (MWCNTs) and carbon nanofibers. (idtechex.com)
  • In general, like most carbon-based materials, CNTs have diverse target markets, giving resilience to their prospects. (idtechex.com)
  • Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are increasingly being used in electronics products. (mdpi.com)
  • A space elevator made from carbon nanotubes (CNTs) might not be practical because CNTs aren't as strong as previously thought. (techdirt.com)
  • Already, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been investigated for their ability to deliver chemotherapy drugs and antibiotics to specific cellular targets. (pharmamanufacturing.com)
  • This chapter presents the results of experimental studies of the electrical, mechanical and geometric parameters of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VA CNTs) using scanning probe microscopy (SPM). (intechopen.com)
  • The proposed techniques allow to overcome the difficulties associated with the vertical orientation and high aspect ratio of nanotubes in determining the electrical and mechanical parameters of the VA CNTs by standard methods. (intechopen.com)
  • So researchers from Dankook University in Korea and University College London have tried using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to repair damaged nerves instead [Ahn, H.-S., et al. (materialstoday.com)
  • Nanowerk News ) Integrating nanoscale fibers such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into commercial applications, from coatings for aircraft wings to heat sinks for mobile computing, requires them to be produced in large scale and at low cost. (nanowerk.com)
  • Aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) grown by chemical vapor deposition are typically wavy, as seen in side view at center of illustration, rather than straight, as illustrated in a single nanotube at right. (nanowerk.com)
  • From our previous work on aligned carbon nanotubes and their composites, we learned that more tightly packing the CNTs is a highly effective way to engineer their properties," says Wardle. (nanowerk.com)
  • For this reason,Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) are expected to be the ultimate high-strength fibers. (cheaptubes.com)
  • These ultra thin carbon filaments have the physical strength to take the wear and tear of bending, and the electrical conductivity to perform any electronic task. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Vastly stronger than steel, infinitely lighter than silk, and significantly more flexible than either material - in terms of thermal and electrical conductivity - carbon nanotubes offer exciting possibilities for any number of industries. (pharmamanufacturing.com)
  • carbon nanotube composites with high strength, high electrical conductivity, and high thermal conductivity. (nanoamor.com)
  • Carbon nanotubes could spark new life into damaged nerves, say researchers, thanks to their unique combination of length, strength, and electrical conductivity. (materialstoday.com)
  • The thermal and electrical conductivity found in carbon nanotubes is very high compared to other conductive or fibrous additive materials. (cheaptubes.com)
  • First, a size exclusion HPLC purification protocol was used to isolate uniform length, SWNTs labelled with single stranded DNA (ssDNA). (elsevierpure.com)
  • Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) typically have a diameter of just a nanometer or two - about 50,000 times less than the diameter of a human hair. (pharmamanufacturing.com)
  • Well-aligned macroscopic fibers composed solely of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were produced by conventional spinning. (teen-hot.com)
  • [11] These properties are expected to be valuable in many areas of technology, such as electronics , optics , composite materials (replacing or complementing carbon fibers ), nanotechnology , and other applications of materials science . (wikipedia.org)
  • Nanotube Fibers Stand Strong - But for How Long Under Stresses and Strains? (scitechdaily.com)
  • Some varieties of carbon nanotubes are similar in shape to asbestos fibers, and like asbestos, some varieties of carbon nanotubes have been shown in laboratory studies to persist in the lungs of laboratory animals. (cdc.gov)
  • A new method to quickly produce fibers from carbon nanotubes is both handmade and high tech. (electrochem.org)
  • The method allows researchers to make short lengths of strong, conductive fibers from small samples of bulk nanotubes in about an hour. (electrochem.org)
  • In 2013, Rice University chemist Matteo Pasquali found a way to spin full spools of thread-like nanotube fibers for aerospace, automotive, medical, and smart-clothing applications. (electrochem.org)
  • The fibers look like cotton thread but perform like metal wires and carbon fibers. (electrochem.org)
  • The researchers expect that nanotubes 50,000 to 70,000 times longer than they are wide will produce fibers of 35 to 40 GPa, about the strength of an individual carbon nanotube. (electrochem.org)
  • The process reproduces the high nanotube alignment and high packing density typical of fibers produced via spinning, but at a size sufficient for strength and conductivity tests, says Pasquali, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, of materials science and nanoengineering, and of chemistry. (electrochem.org)
  • This ordered dispersion was extruded via solution spinning into continuous lengths of macroscopic neat SWNT fibers. (teen-hot.com)
  • To date, they've made 50-meter long fibers, and see no limits on length. (nanotech-now.com)
  • Carbon nanotube exposures can potentially occur not only in the process of manufacturing them, but also at the point of incorporating these materials into polymer composites, medical nanoapplications, and electronics. (cdc.gov)
  • A carbon nanotube ( CNT ) is a tube made of carbon with a diameter in the nanometer range ( nanoscale ). (wikipedia.org)
  • Individual carbon nanotubes-hollow nanoscale tubes of pure carbon-are mechanically strong and an order of magnitude more conductive than copper. (technologyreview.com)
  • The results can be used in the development of diagnostic methods as well as in nanoelectronics and nanosystem devices based on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (memory elements, adhesive structures, nanoelectromechanical switches, emission structures, etc. (intechopen.com)
  • The researchers' material, an architected, vertically aligned carbon nanotube foam, can absorb significantly more energy from impacts than the foam currently used in U.S. military combat helmet liners. (plantengineering.com)
  • To achieve this breakthrough, the researchers tailored the design of their vertically aligned carbon nanotube foam to have unique structural features across multiple length scales. (plantengineering.com)
  • These displays show, at a much larger scale, the researchers' architectures for their vertically aligned carbon nanotube foam. (plantengineering.com)
  • In this work, we achieved a desirable linear scaling between properties and density in vertically aligned carbon nanotube foams designed with our unique architecture," Thevamaran said. (plantengineering.com)
  • at IBM independently discovered that co-vaporizing carbon and transition metals such as iron and cobalt could specifically catalyze SWCNT formation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, we used myeloperoxidase knockout B6.129X1-MPO (MPO k/o) mice and showed that oxidation and clearance of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) from the lungs of these animals after pharyngeal aspiration was markedly less effective whereas the inflammatory response was more robust than in wild-type C57Bl/6 mice. (cdc.gov)
  • These health concerns have demonstrated that clearance and oxidation of single wall carbon been associated - to a large extent - with the reported long ``life- nanotubes (SWCNT) in the lungs after their pharyngeal span'' of SWCNT in the lung thus necessitating exploration of aspiration was markedly less effective whereas inflammatory possible metabolic pathways leading to their biodegradation. (cdc.gov)
  • 2020-10-24 · The optical and electronic properties of boron nitride nanotubes have been studied using the full potential linear augmented plane wave method in the framework of density functional theory. (teen-hot.com)
  • By burning away a scaffold of carbon nanotubes, engineers have been able to produce a forest of aligned boron nitride nanotubes. (materialstoday.com)
  • Since the length of the carbon-carbon bonds is fairly fixed, there are constraints on the diameter of the cylinder and the arrangement of the atoms on it. (wikipedia.org)
  • Measuring chirality and the diameter (i.e. height) of the nanotube, one can uniquely characterize the nanotube under study. (teen-hot.com)
  • The Impact of Carbon Nanotube Length and Diameter on their Global Alignment by Dead‐End Filtration. (tu-darmstadt.de)
  • According to the product specification, as-received MWCNTs were determined with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to be 1 to 10 nm in length, with a diameter of 10 to 30 nm. (springer.com)
  • BACKGROUND: Carbon nanotubes and nanofibers (CNT/F) have known toxicity but simultaneous comparative studies of the broad material class, especially those with a larger diameter, with computational analyses linking toxicity to their fundamental material characteristics was lacking. (cdc.gov)
  • A scanning electron microscope image shows that heat-treated aligned carbon nanotubes self-assemble into cells with clearly defined cell walls when they are densified by applying and evaporating a few drops of liquid acetone or ethanol. (nanowerk.com)
  • Sheets of graphene, one to a few atoms thick, and aligned, single-walled carbon nanotubes self-assemble into an interconnected prorous network that run the length of the fiber. (nanotech-now.com)
  • However, while cataloged experimental data are available for the structural characterization of carbon nanotubes, such an atlas is absent for graphene nanoribbons. (nature.com)
  • Here we report a convenient, versatile method to organize discrete length single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) into complex geometries using 2D DNA origami structures. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Two different 2D DNA origami structures, a triangle and a rectangle, were used to organize the nanotubes. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The zigzag and armchair configurations are not the only structures that a single-walled nanotube can have. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here we provide a consequence of this confluence of geometry and physics in tubular structures: our analysis shows that the persistence of a localized pinch in an elastic pipe whose effect decays as an oscillatory exponential with a persistence length that diverges as the thickness of the tube vanishes, which we confirm using simulations and simple experiments. (imechanica.org)
  • But unless carbon nanotubes are put together just so, larger structures made from them don't have the superlative properties of the individual tubes. (technologyreview.com)
  • But they found that brightness among nanotubes of the same length varied widely, likely due to damaged or defective structures or chemical reactions that allowed atoms to latch onto the surface. (scitechdaily.com)
  • We used spectroscopy to take this very polydisperse sample containing many different structures and study just one of them, the (10,2) nanotubes," Weisman said. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Although they may have been discovered considerably earlier, most people credit the discovery of carbon nanotubes to Japanese scientist, Sumio Iijima, who first described the curious structures in 1991. (pharmamanufacturing.com)
  • Carbon nanotubes are unimaginably thin-cylindrical structures made from sheets of carbon just one atom thick. (pharmamanufacturing.com)
  • We can process all kinds of nanotubes the exact same way so we get optimal fiber structures and properties," Headrick says. (electrochem.org)
  • 2013-4-15 · The Nanotube Builder plugin generates SWCN structures of arbitrary length and chirality for the purpose of molecular simulations or nanoscience education. (teen-hot.com)
  • Thus, it is important to further investigate the biodistribution of nanomaterials post co-exposure to different structures of carbon nanomaterials. (springer.com)
  • Their material has a novel architecture that consists of closely packed thin concentric cylinder structures at the micrometer scale, with each cylinder made of many carbon nanotubes, which themselves have a concentric cylindrical structure in the nanometer scale. (plantengineering.com)
  • Recent advances in synthesis of single wall carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons allow for their use as atomically precise building blocks. (nature.com)
  • Here we theoretically investigate the optical absorption resonances of armchair carbon nanotubes and zigzag graphene nanoribbons continuously spanning the tube (ribbon) transverse sizes from 0.5(0.4) nm to 8.1(12.8) nm. (nature.com)
  • Thus, an atlas of carbon nanotubes optical transitions can be mapped to an atlas of zigzag graphene nanoribbons. (nature.com)
  • This development has partially eliminated both the edge quality issue of graphene nanoribbons and the chirality problem for carbon nanotubes. (nature.com)
  • Researchers from Rice University and State University of New York - Stony Brook have shown that the addition of low weight % of carbon nanotubes can lead to significant improvements in the mechanical properties of biodegradable polymeric nanocomposites for applications in tissue engineering including bone, cartilage, muscle and nerve tissue. (wikipedia.org)
  • Researchers at Rice University, Stony Brook University, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre and University of California, Riverside have shown that carbon nanotubes and their polymer nanocomposites are suitable scaffold materials for bone tissue engineering and bone formation. (wikipedia.org)
  • For the first time, researchers have made carbon-nanotube electrical cables that can carry as much current as copper wires. (technologyreview.com)
  • Researchers at Rice University have now demonstrated carbon-nanotube cables in a practical system and are designing a manufacturing line for commercial production. (technologyreview.com)
  • Years of tinkering in the lab to find the right assembly techniques and ingredients have enabled researchers led by Rice materials science professors Pulickel Ajayan and Enrique Barrera to finally make carbon nanotube cables as good as copper cables. (technologyreview.com)
  • The researchers add sulfuric acid to the nanotubes so they can spread them into a thin film. (technologyreview.com)
  • New information about nanotube fluorescence and its relationship with length and imperfections has been discovered by researchers from Rice University. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Researchers studying single-walled carbon nanotubes at Rice University discovered new information about nanotube fluorescence and its relationship with length and imperfections. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The researchers found that the brightest nanotubes of the same length show consistent fluorescence intensity, and the longer the tube, the brighter. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The researchers applied spectral filtering to selectively view the specific type of nanotube. (scitechdaily.com)
  • In 2005, NIOSH researchers showed that aspiration of single-walled carbon nanotubes in mice caused progressive fibrosis and granuloma formation. (cdc.gov)
  • Researchers have found that highly aligned carbon nanotube films can rotate the polarization of light at terahertz frequencies. (materialstoday.com)
  • MIT researchers have developed a systematic method to predict the geometry of the two-dimensional cellular patterns that these nanotubes will form. (nanowerk.com)
  • To start to piece together the molecular mechanism behind their observations, the Arkansas researchers grew cells of tobacco plants, which are a commonly studied plant in the lab, in growth media containing varying concentrations of multiwalled carbon nanotubes or activated carbon. (acs.org)
  • As they found in previous studies, the researchers saw that activated carbon increased cell growth rates by 16% at a low concentration of 5 µg/mL. (acs.org)
  • The researchers found that, in the cells grown with nanotubes, expression spiked of all three genes they studied: ones associated with cell division, cell wall formation, and water transport. (acs.org)
  • If the tube is instead encircled by a closed armchair path, it is said to be of the armchair type , or an armchair nanotube . (wikipedia.org)
  • An infinite nanotube that is of the zigzag (or armchair) type consists entirely of closed zigzag (or armchair) paths, connected to each other. (wikipedia.org)
  • n,0) zigzag nanotube (n,n) armchair nanotube (n,m) chiral nanotube An atomically resolved image of a chiral nanotube as observed in STM experiments. (teen-hot.com)
  • But, says Khodakovskaya, "if we want to use carbon nanotubes as a fertilizer, we have to understand the mechanism of these positive effects and study the potential risks in detail. (acs.org)
  • Moreover, the results would be compared with previous reports to confirm whether one carbon nanomaterial can really affect the behavior and fate of another in vivo and to further understand the related mechanism. (springer.com)
  • The nanotube-bound ssDNAs are composed of two domains: a SWNT binding domain and a linker binding domain. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Single-walled carbon nanotubes ( SWCNTs ) have diameters around 0.5-2.0 nanometers , about 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. (wikipedia.org)
  • Larger nominal tube diameters, greater lengths, and bundled agglomerate characteristics were associated with greater severity of effect. (cdc.gov)
  • The portion of tubes with greater nominal length and larger diameters within a sample was not the majority in number, meaning a smaller percentage of tubes with these characteristics was sufficient to increase toxicity. (cdc.gov)
  • The severity of toxicity was dependent on the sample containing a proportion of tubes with greater nominal lengths and diameters. (cdc.gov)
  • The structure of an ideal (infinitely long) single-walled carbon nanotube is that of a regular hexagonal lattice drawn on an infinite cylindrical surface, whose vertices are the positions of the carbon atoms. (wikipedia.org)
  • It follows that the circumference of the tube and the angle of the strip are not arbitrary, because they are constrained to the lengths and directions of the lines that connect pairs of graphene atoms in the same class. (wikipedia.org)
  • Comprised of an almost impossibly gossamer-thin layer of carbon atoms, arranged in a single-atom-thick honeycomb lattice, graphene is essentially a two-dimensional sheet. (pharmamanufacturing.com)
  • In diamond, carbon atoms are arranged in a three-dimensional lattice. (pharmamanufacturing.com)
  • If you imagine that the structure of the carbon atoms make up lots of little pentagons and hexagons. (teen-hot.com)
  • The carbon atoms of a single sheet of graphite form a planar honeycomb lattice, in which each atom is connected via a strong chemical bond to three neighboring atoms. (cheaptubes.com)
  • In the study of nanotubes, one defines a zigzag path on a graphene-like lattice as a path that turns 60 degrees, alternating left and right, after stepping through each bond. (wikipedia.org)
  • On some carbon nanotubes, there is a closed zigzag path that goes around the tube. (wikipedia.org)
  • One says that the tube is of the zigzag type or configuration, or simply is a zigzag nanotube . (wikipedia.org)
  • In this paper, we presented the Hosoya polynomial and Harary polynomial for zigzag polyhex nanotube TUHC 6. (teen-hot.com)
  • what is a zigzag nanotube? (teen-hot.com)
  • 2006-11-12 · A zigzag nanotube is a carbon nanotube with a particular orientation. (teen-hot.com)
  • Band structure and density of states for a (10,0) zigzag nanotube within the zone-folding model. (teen-hot.com)
  • Carbon nanotubes vary in their conductivity, length, and number of layers. (technologyreview.com)
  • The iodine penetrates into the nanotubes within the cable and increases the cable's conductivity without compromising its mechanical properties. (technologyreview.com)
  • And the Rice group has shown that conductivity isn't affected when the cables are knotted together to make greater lengths. (technologyreview.com)
  • Zhao, Z , Liu, Y & Yan, H 2013, ' DNA origami templated self-assembly of discrete length single wall carbon nanotubes ', Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry , vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 596-598. (elsevierpure.com)
  • In this thesis, I use type, chirality and length purified single-wall carbon nanotubes to clarify the nature of this particular class of solar cell. (ndsu.edu)
  • And that maximum brightness is proportional to length, which suggests those tubes are not affected by imperfections. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Weisman said the study involved singling out one or two isolated nanotubes at a time in a dilute sample and finding their lengths by analyzing videos of the moving tubes captured with a special fluorescence microscope. (scitechdaily.com)
  • However, tubes may easily tangle, and may require deagglomeration and selective length reduction to become optimally useful, especially for biological applications. (pharmamanufacturing.com)
  • The session will also include papers focusing on processing techniques such as purification, separation and chemical functionalization that are necessary to develop nanotube-based technologies. (confex.com)
  • For a carbon nanotube, the Young's modulus E defined in this paper is not a constant. (imechanica.org)
  • Physicochemical characterization and genotoxicity of the broad class of carbon nanotubes and nanofibers used or produced in U.S. facilities. (cdc.gov)
  • A growing number of carbon nanotubes and nanofibers (CNT/F) exposure and epidemiologic studies have utilized 25- and 37-mm open-faced cassettes (OFCs) to assess the inhalable aerosol fraction. (cdc.gov)
  • Making lightweight, efficient carbon nanotube wiring as conductive as copper has been a goal of nanotechnologists since the 1980s. (technologyreview.com)
  • however the development of industrial-scale nanotube synthesis and purification capabilities remains problematic. (ndsu.edu)
  • A solution containing acid-oxidized single-wall nanotubes, graphene oxide and ethylenediamine, which promotes synthesis and dopes graphene with nitrogen, is pumped through a flexible narrow reinforced tube called a capillary column and heated in an oven for six hours. (nanotech-now.com)
  • Several arrangements of nanotubes were constructed, with defined tube lengths and inter-tube angles. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The uniform tube lengths and positional precision that this method affords may have applications in electronic device fabrication. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Similarly, the tube lengths range from few micro meters all the way to 2 millimetres. (idtechex.com)
  • They then compared the cells to ones grown without either carbon material. (acs.org)
  • For an earlier paper published in the journal Applied Physics Letters ( 'Effect of nanofiber proximity on the mechanical behavior of high volume fraction aligned carbon nanotube arrays' ), Stein and colleagues used nanoindentation techniques to measure stiffness of aligned carbon nanotube arrays and found their stiffness to be 1/1,000 to 1/10,000 times less than the theoretical stiffness of individual carbon nanotubes. (nanowerk.com)
  • Therefore, toxicity and biosafety of carbon nanomaterials must be investigated deeply for safe application in biomedicine in the future. (springer.com)
  • However, it is still unclear whether the nanostructure is certain to affect and determine the behavior and fate of carbon nanomaterials in vivo . (springer.com)
  • Radioisotope tracing technology can measure accurately the content of carbon nanomaterials in any tissue. (springer.com)
  • 2012) Impaired Clearance and Enhanced Pulmonary Inflammatory/Fibrotic Response to Carbon Nanotubes in Myeloperoxidase-Deficient Mice. (cdc.gov)
  • DOI10.1038/nnano.2008.111]) contribute to the carbon nanotube/asbestos fiber comparison debate. (cdc.gov)
  • Carbon nanotubes with fluorine surface functionality stands out when compared to other fiber additive materials. (cheaptubes.com)
  • Nanotubes made from graphene sheets possess the greatest tensile strength of any known material. (pharmamanufacturing.com)
  • The session will feature technology that exploits the novel electronic, electro-mechanical, optical, and structural properties of carbon nanotubes for the solution of engineering problems. (confex.com)
  • Carbon nanotubes are highly desirable because of their thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties, which are directionally dependent. (nanowerk.com)
  • Recently, several studies have highlighted the prospect of using carbon nanotubes as building blocks to fabricate three-dimensional macroscopic (>1mm in all three dimensions) all-carbon devices. (wikipedia.org)
  • Development of on-chip integrated carbon-based optoelectronic nanocircuits requires fast and non-invasive structural characterization of their building blocks. (nature.com)
  • Meanwhile, multiwalled nanotubes increased growth by 55 to 64% over a range of concentrations from 5 to 500 µg/mL. (acs.org)
  • In this work we initially use density functional theory (DFT) to determine the most likely defects in highly nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes, and to calculate the dissociation path of ammonia and hydrogen sulphide molecules onto these defects. (aps.org)
  • The product's developers, engineers and scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Tsinghua University in China, and Case Western Reserve University in the United States, believe the storage capacity by volume (called volumetric energy density) is the highest reported for carbon-based microscale supercapacitors to date: 6.3 microwatt hours per cubic millimeter. (nanotech-now.com)
  • Earlier studies used materials with high levels of other forms of carbon such as carbon black and high levels of metal catalyst. (cdc.gov)
  • As in graphene and many other similar carbon additive materials, there is no single type of CNT but there are many. (idtechex.com)
  • These 3D all-carbon scaffolds/architectures may be used for the fabrication of the next generation of energy storage, supercapacitors, field emission transistors, high-performance catalysis, photovoltaics, and biomedical devices and implants. (wikipedia.org)
  • We provide high quality of graphene and carbon nanotubes is various forms to cater customer needs. (nanowerk.com)
  • A pyrene-like ring of the nanotube is chosen as an adsorption site in the high layer of the ONIOM calculations for the adsorption of a single molecule. (teen-hot.com)
  • This allows for sub-micron channel length without using high-res patterning. (oled-info.com)
  • C arbon Nanotubes have proven to offer a unique properties of stiffness and strength largely due to their high aspect ratio and all carbon structure. (cheaptubes.com)
  • We studied the local optical response of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes to wrapping by DNA segments using high resolution tip-enhanced near-field microscopy. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Waviness reduces the stiffness of CNT arrays by up to 100,000 times, but their stiffness can be increased by densifying, or compressing, the nanotube clusters from two different directions. (nanowerk.com)
  • Rice University researcher Yao Zhao demonstrates a setup that uses a carbon nanotube cable to carry standard electrical current to a fluorescent lightbulb. (technologyreview.com)
  • A painstaking study by Rice University has brought a wealth of new information about single-walled carbon nanotubes through analysis of their fluorescence. (scitechdaily.com)