Each year, thousands of papers are published that explore carbon nanotubes. Since their discovery in the early 1990s by Sumio Iijima, who published a revolutionary paper in Nature, carbon nanotubes ...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their coiled derivatives – often termed carbon nanocoils – have attracted significant attention owing to their extraordinary mechanical properties. Their exceptional ...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a standard imaging technique for the structural characterization of surfaces in different fields of materials science, surface science, and biology. Carbon nanotubes ...

Carbice’s solution, known as the Ice Pad, solves this problem both on a thermal and a mechanical level, Cola says. By laying a sheet of nanotubes across the chip, where the paste would be, he says it ...

Carbon-based stimuli-responsive nanomaterials are gaining much attention due to their versatility, including disease diagnosis and treatment. They work under endogenous (pH, temperature, enzyme, and ...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have emerged as a versatile nanomaterial with unique structural, electronic, and mechanical properties that offer transformative potential in both drug delivery and sensor ...

Tiny tubes of carbon that emit single photons from just one point along their length have been made in a deterministic manner by RIKEN researchers. Such carbon nanotubes could form the basis of future ...

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A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a molecule made of carbon atoms arranged in a cylindrical nanostructure. A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a molecule made of carbon atoms arranged in a cylindrical nanostructure.

Scientists at Rice University found a new way to make liquid crystals from boron nitride nanotubes. Instead of using acids or polymers to disperse the nanotubes, they used a common surfactant and ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Plastics permeate every facet of modern life, from the packaging that protects our food to the components in our smartphones. This ubiquity, however, comes at a steep ...

These photos show the 60-carbon alkene buckminsterfullerene ("buckyballs"). This substance joins graphite and diamond as a third form of carbon molecule. Technology sometimes derives from clever ...