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Semiconducting nanotubes produced in quantity

Semiconducting Nanotubes Are 'Holy Grail' for Electronic Applications

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- After announcing last April a method for growing exceptionally long, straight, numerous and well-aligned carbon cylinders only a few atoms thick, a Duke University-led team of chemists has ...





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With help of DNA, nanotubes may become a bigger force

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In his neatly ordered lab at DuPont, chemist Ming Zheng slides open a glass cabinet and removes a flask of soot that could have been swept from someone's fireplace.


Jie Liu works to find new applications for carbon nanotubes

Duke Chemist's Lab Steady Source of 'Nanotube' Advances

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created Dec 20, 2005 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

"Nanotubes" grown in the busy laboratory of associate chemistry professor Jie Liu were crucial to IBM scientists' recent announcements of a new source of light emissions. Liu's lab is also working with a California ...


Nano-Armor: Protecting the Soldiers of Tomorrow

Nano-Armor: Protecting the Soldiers of Tomorrow

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created Dec 10, 2005 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (115) | comments 0

An Israeli company has recently tested one of the most shock-resistant materials known to man. Five times stronger than steel and at least twice as strong as any impact-resistant material currently in use ...


Tobias Hertel in the lab.

Stengthening the glow of nanotube luminescence

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created Nov 15, 2005 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Nanotubes are the poster children of the nanotechnology revolution. These tiny carbon tubes – less than 1/50,000 the diameter of a human hair – possess novel properties that have researchers excitedly expl ...


Nanotech pioneer, buckyball discoverer, Nobel laureate Richard Smalley dead at 62

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created Oct 31, 2005 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Nobel laureate Richard Smalley, co-discoverer of the buckyball and one of the best-known and respected scientists in nanotechnology, died today in Houston after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.


Carbon Nanotubes for State-of-the-art Packaging

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created Jul 12, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc (CNI) and Kostat, Inc. today announced a joint development agreement to develop and commercialise conductive polymers for electronics module trays, carrier tapes and other electronics related ...



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