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Carbon Nanotube Transistors are Closer to Reality with New Fabrication Process

Carbon nanotube transistors are a step closer to commercial reality, now that MIT researchers have demonstrated that the devices can be made swiftly in commercial facilities, with the same equipment used to manufacture the silicon-based transistors that are the backbone of today's computing industry.

2 Jun 2020

MWCNT Nanoparticles Significantly Reduce Power Consumption of Refrigerators

Scientists have successfully used the more energy-efficient R600a refrigerant in the place of environmentally unfriendly and extensively used R134a.

1 Jun 2020

Researchers Move Closer to Unraveling the Physics of Quasiparticles in Carbon Nanotubes

A team of researchers from Osaka University, TU Wien, Nanyang Technological University, Rice University, University of Alberta and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale comes closer to unraveling the physics of quasiparticles in carbon nanotubes.

22 Apr 2020

Nanosensors can Track How Plants Respond to Stresses

MIT engineers have developed a way to closely track how plants respond to stresses such as injury, infection, and light damage, using sensors made of carbon nanotubes.

16 Apr 2020

Double-Walled Nanotubes Have Electro-Optical Advantages

Rice University theorists find that flexoelectric effects in double-walled carbon nanotubes could be highly useful for photovoltaic applications.

1 Apr 2020

Scientists Image Atomic Bonding Using Advanced Microscopy Techniques

For the first time, researchers have successfully captured and imaged the bonding between atoms with the help of sophisticated microscopy techniques.

20 Jan 2020

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 so many layers in a phyllo-dough pastry.

17 Jan 2020

Scientists Synthetize New Carbon Nanotubes with 90% Selectivity

Researchers have successfully developed a certain type of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that have 90% selectivity, and have widened the present theory describing the synthesis of these potential nano-cylinders.

16 Dec 2019

Method for Using Low-Cost Newsprint from Newspapers to Grow Carbon Nanotubes

Some exciting information for carbon nanotube fans: Scientists at Rice and Swansea universities have formulated a method to utilize low-cost newsprint extracted from newspapers to grow nanotubes for the industry.

29 Nov 2019

Research Experiments to Grow Carbon Nanotubes on Newspapers

A study conducted by scientists at Rice University in collaboration with scientists at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University has shown that single-walled carbon nanotubes can be grown extensively on old newspapers, which is a cheap, environmentally-friendly material.

25 Nov 2019