Scientists trap krypton atoms in carbon nanotubes, forming a one-dimensional gas and offering new insights…
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Nanotubes are minuscule cylindrical structures with diameters measured in nanometers, typically made from carbon (known as carbon nanotubes) or other materials like boron nitride. Carbon nanotubes, discovered in 1991 by Sumio Iijima, exhibit remarkable electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties, including superior strength and conductivity compared to most materials. These properties make them highly useful in various applications, including in nanotechnology, electronics, optics, and other fields of materials science. They also play a critical role in developing new materials and devices at the nanoscale, such as ultra-small transistors, batteries, and sensors.
The world’s tiniest plumbing could potentially funnel drugs to individual human cells. Working on microscopic…
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“Quantum friction” slows water flow through carbon nanotubes, resolving long-standing fluid dynamics mystery. For 15…
Rice scientists calculate how carbon nanotubes and their fibers experience fatigue. Up here in the…
An international team of researchers has used a unique tool inserted into an electron microscope…
With the power of nanotechnology, investigators have discovered that cancer cells strengthen by forming nanotubes…
Space missions, such as NASA’s Orion that will take astronauts to Mars, are pushing the…
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Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used new techniques to create a composite that increases…
It is crucial for photovoltaics and other technical applications, how efficiently energy spreads in a…
New approach harnesses the same fabrication processes used for silicon chips, offers key advance toward…
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Integrating nanoscale fibers such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into commercial applications, from coatings for aircraft…
The terms “handmade” and “high tech” are not commonly found in the same sentence, but…
New research from Rice University shows that nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes or modified graphene nanoribbons may…
Using both low- and high-frequency ultrasonic techniques, scientists have fabricated nanoscrolls made from graphene oxide…