Scanning electron microscope photo of hollow carbon nanofiber-encapsulated sulfur tubes, at the heart of a new battery design. Credit: Wesley Guangyuan Zheng; Stanford Stanford University associate professor of materials science…
Read MoreRice University researchers, Robert Vajtai, Enrique Barrera and Yao Zhao created a conductive cable from iodine-doped nanotubes capable of carrying household current. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Showing how something works…
Read MoreCarbon nanotube and graphene electrode nanodevice. The electrical properties of a 1,000 atom nanodevice were calculated using first-principles computation methods. Credit: Fujitsu Laboratories press release. A key tenet of the…
Read MoreCheck ’em out: Low-cost system spots failing bridges; new sensor technology helps make bridges safer Rice University researchers ‘armchair’ nanotubes could improve power grid’s efficiency Russia offers Germany help on…
Read MoreFour-point conductivity measurement of the new transparent conducting film developed by Cor Koning (left) and Paul van der Schoot (right). Credit: Bart van Overbeeke, TU/e. According to a news release,…
Read MoreOne of the editors at Nature has written a good (free) article that provides some of important perspective about the movement of nano-carbon products (fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and, more recently,…
Read MoreUniversity of Michigan engineers are using a new manufacturing process called “capillary forming” to make carbon nanotubes in shapes that span the scope of the imagination. According to a press…
Read MoreScientists at the Paul Pascal Research Center in France have developed an industrial-scale method for low cost manufacturing of carbon aerogels from agglomerated carbon nanotubes. According to the patent application…
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