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Nanotube Applications Grow And Grow
HobbySpacer writes "Carbon nanotubes are starting to transition from interesting laboratory curiosities into interesting technological applications. These apps include non-volatile RAM, flat screen displays, high strength fabrics, and smart skin for structures in aerospace and elsewhere. Perhaps if The Graduate was being made today, the one word for Benjamin Braddock's future would not be "plastics" but "nanotubes"."
Carbin nanotubes are starting to transition from interesting laboratory curiosities into interesting technological applications.
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The space elevator could do double duty as the worlds longest (and thinnest) supercomputer?
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And as far as commercial entities go, don't forget IBM's find back in September of 2002, which was making nanotubes with carbon instead of metal.
What's next? jewelry? pencils? life?
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fishing rods.. what about fishing rods ?!
Will they be able to create wearable skin displays to make me invisible?
Ha, you can't see me now!!!
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what on earth would you do with a carbine rifle that small?
i guess even nanites are set to participate in the arms race.
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The whole point of the "plastics" line was that plastics represent the artificiality of adult life. If nanotubes are made of carbon, then they're not artificial enough!
What happens when someone starts to create viruses with these Nanotubes ? It'll be a brave new world then :-P
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For me, the best is to come in LCD screens. Faster and cheaper LCD screens, and with better image quality. Now, thats what I call good news.
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This carbon nanotube technology is a flash in the pan. People who really know where it's at are into methane micro-lasers. Is there anything you can't do with those?!!
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SciAm has run several articles on nanotubes over the years, several are indexed here, along with more general nanotech articles:
http://www.sciam.com/nanotech_directory.cfm
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That's all fine and dandy, but a bullet proof piece of clothing 'as light as a t-shirt' wouldn't so squat. Kevlar is a pretty light material too, the reason bullet proof vests are so heavy is because of the large impact absorbing plates. Without some impact absorbance, the bullet would just end up dragging a whole bunch of cloth into the gaping hole in your chest. You have to have something to absorb the kinetic energy; and a t-shirt just doesn't cut it.
Space elevator.
Variable sword.
Shadow-square wire.
Don't write these off as goofy SF ideas. These are well-thought-out designs with only one "If Only". When the final engineering solution for the "if only" part of the design appears (and it will), the prediction is realized.
Ever heard of geostationary satellites?
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I notice similaraties with Stephenson's 'The Diamond Age'... You say Carbon Nanotube based memory chip... He calls it rod logic, but it's clearly the same thing
Just wait until we get some vacuum-filled buckyballs and some useful nano-power sourde.
The diamond age is about to begin.
From the article: "The ability to place CNTs directly on a substrate while controlling their spacing, size, and length, provides a high quality image with optimized electron emissions, brightness, color purity and resolution for flat panel displays. Other attempts in this field utilize a "paste" or "print" method of applying CNTs, which to date, have not been able to provide the same level of display image quality, or the potential cost savings of Motorola's NED process."
This brings up some interesting ideas !
What happens when the technology for laying the nanotubes onto substrates becomes so good that we
are able to build car frames or house frames from it(think 3D substrates of nanotubes) ?
How about another question , how easy is it for one to recycle this crap.
We already have problems with millions of old junk PC's and monitors, what happens when you have near indestructable nanotube structures ?
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Smart skins would have been nice this morning when some jerk backed into my car and didn't bother to leave a note...
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You do this all the time, and I'm calling you out on it. What do you have to say for yourself?
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Another potential use for nanotubes are the traces on semiconductors:
I've seen a presentation from Infineon about using carbon nanotubes instead of copper for the vias in copper - time frame for production 3-5 years.
http://www.eurosime.com/bgnd.htm#es03
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I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
It's not his fault the system's broke. He's just exploiting it. The very definition of hacker.
I was promised a flying car! Will nanotubes deliver?
Otherwise, those plusses he gets would end up being minuses on your posts, so the the complaintant needs to STFU and let it happen.
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I want to be made into a carbon nanotube condom.
...is very very tiny. The shopping carts are also small, thought slightly less so.
It seems Nantero has taken a "hint" from IBM by trying to beat them to the punch.
Wired had an article in April of 2000 on a technology called MRAM being developed by Stuart Parkin at IBM. Very interesting stuff, and they had working prototypes before this Nantero thing. From what I can tell, Nantero probably read the same article I did, as the similarities are quite remarkable.
Check it out: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/mram.html
The amusing thing about the plastics mentioning is that it really has come true, as far as market penetration. Almost everything that we deal with is plastic, from the bulk of the styling panels on modern automobiles, to grocery bags, to computer parts. Almost every strap connector is made of plastic, and many ropes are plastic-impregnated for strength and longevity. We ship our food in plastic, we filter our water with it. We contain industrial fluids in it. It's everywhere. It's easy to find devices that are nearly 100% plastic, it's nearly impossible to find something with absolutely no plastic in it whatsoever.
Maybe the Buggles album "Age of Plastic" is fully appropriate by name. Certainly the method I use to play it is plastic...
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Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 02, @12:59PM
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Perhaps if The Graduate was being made today, the one word for Benjamin Braddock's future would not be "plastics" but "nanotubes"."
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Huh? I don't see anything in the articles about any of those applications increasing in size... Although, it would be pretty sweet to have a growing flat panel display...
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The reason that plastics are seen to represent artificiality has nothing to do with their core makeup. It has to do with the fact they are used to replace other materials - in a way that mimics the original material without actually having any of the original material. Examples: faux furs and glasses (both cups and eyeglasses apply here). No matter how close in look and feel a plastic comes to the original material, it is still not really that material - and thus is artificial.
I was taking one day at a time, but then several days got together and ambushed me. (from a Rhymes with Orange comic)
"He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil."
There's an article on the Register outlining the UK Governments proposed investment of £90m (GBP) in nanotechnology over the next six years here. With links to the announcement on the Government News Network. A very little too late perhaps.
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ferroelectric nanotubes
That would be for propaganda. I second grandparent's request and add UNBIASED.
While the strength inherent in the mithril is a component in resisting spear thrusts, it is in fact the Elfish magic that the armor has been imbued with that absorbs and dissipates the force of the blow. This is also the major factor in the delicious nature of Keebler cookies, which are also Elfish.
You say Carbon Nanotube based memory chip...
He calls it rod logic, but it's clearly the same thing
Neal describes mechanical computers.
The articles dicuss the use of nanotubes
as transistors.
http://www.exn.ca/video/?video=exn20030325-airsh ip.asx
Newer stuff all the time. As far as fabrics go, I think it's still a great invention, but as with all inventions, it will only do wonders when used properly. In which case it's still has to be handled by us puny hoomans.
What if this new technology enables criminals to get away with stuff they didn't used to?
Like when the Flash had to eat so many candy bars just to absorb...
Mark my words! The day will come when Nanocriminals will be about!
~Sayeth the nanoprophet of doom
How bout we make some roofing with the stuff? At least it'll last longer than 15 years, or Winter 98 in Québec.
Hey maybe we can even convince the people in Montreal to keep the big O and have it covered with this stuff (Good luck)
Betcha when it hits urban industries the taxpayers will be emptying their wallets because of it.
While we're ahead maybe we should start making nano-checks; I wonder what a nanopenny will look like and how many it'll take for my nano jujubee.
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p.s. at least I started on topic.
Wired has also had some great articles. My favorite has been the plan for the space elevator. Thick as a piece of paper and a few feed wide, create a ribbon made of nanotubes miles long. Attach one end to a platform in the middle of an ocean. Attach the other end to a station in geo-cync orbit. Have a simple platform crawl up the ribbon into space.
Plus it would make one hell of a great Freefall ride at Great Adventure.
Developers: We can use your help.
I betcha that Robin Williams will be picked up by the first company to really do something with these as a product.
They'll dress him up as Mork on TV and he'll say "Nano Nano" over and over again.
Hmmm...
wear my flat panel display and constantly run Futurama Episodes on my "smart skin" ?
Doh. Just imagine! Current fishing poles are made from carbon fiber and they are strong like the hell! With a nanotube fishing pole you could go fishing for whales!
And the string! It would NEVER break! Sooner the hook would get straightened or you'd lose your hands!
Offtopic. Doh.
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Excellent read - although I have now decided to freeze myself for thawing in about 200 years.
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i keep getting these popups that tell me i should be larger... In related news my girlfriend told me that i have a nano-tube....
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how is this off-topic? What is being discussed is the economic possibilities of this material. I for one would love a lighter, unbreakable fly rod.
Fishing in the US is a many-tens-of-billions industry, and it has just as much technology involved as other industries. Have you ever seen one of the newest $50,000 bass fishing boats, freaking GPS fish finders!
Oh, and most fishing rods are made of graphite composites for the sensitivity they present the user. Carbon fiber constuctions are loved for the great rigidity and strength-to-weight ratio, that is why my bike is made of it.
That, defying the UN, breaking the geneva convention, creating one of the most ludicrous tax plans ever (and subsequently heavily damaging the economy), and oh yeah lying to the American people...
Remember how pissed off everyone got when Clinton lied about his PERSONAL BUSINESS? Bush should be impeached, the hundreds dead because of his actions would thank whoever called for such action.
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Remember the old slashdot story that said that carbon nanotubes could absorb UV incredably efficiently (so much so that a camera flash would cause single-walled nanotubes to overheat and combust)? I am wondering why we aren't hearing about super efficient solar cells based on carbon nanotubes. ~90% efficiency would be pretty darn kool! :P The only problem I can think of is that they are still hard/expensive to make, but you would think that some people would be experimenting with this anyway.
The manufacturing machine could be put on a geostationary satellite and could "grow" a thread reaching earth and further out into space.
Its "Fountains of Paradise" time.
Arthur C Clarke must be so pleased. He got right the development and use of satellites, geostationary and orbital, and now this.
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I think you are missing the whole point of the movie "The Graduate". Dustin Hoffman got to bonk that older woman. That's it.
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I think Larry Niven's idea of impact armor is cooler: lightweight material that is flexible until it's elastic limit is exceeded, at which time it instantaneously hardens into material stronger than steel. Nifty. Looks like Sinclair Molecule Chain may not be that far off either. Now if only we could figure out the General Products Hulls!
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topic is diverging, but there are some amazing tank armor systems that detect the incoming projectile (often a high-mass, low-cross-section sabot - basically a uranium spike) and actually jump off the tank to meet it. The sabot is deflected just enough to hit the main armor slightly skew, destroying the sabot without penetrating the tank. It's just mind-fudgingly amazing that these things can work.
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From the article about bullet proof "cloth":
The fibre's toughness probably results from structural changes during stretching
Looks like it does stretch to me. Which was the entire point of my post.
What is "not too distant future" in hype-speak ?
No it's not.
That was in the Sourcebook Fields of Fire for the Shadowrun RPG. (and a damn fine gaming system it is too.)
The bulletproof clothing felt like gel when worn under normal conditions, but when subjected to a shockwave from a projectile or blast moving at or above the speed of sound it would harden into a bodycast of the wearer. After the shock had passed around the wearer, the armour would return to its fluid state. It was available in two models - the original bodysuit which made the wearer immobile until it had re-liquified, and the second-gen stuff which only hardened in the places hit.
The failure mode for a bad roll of the dice when defending against automatic weapons fire would the irreversible hardening of the suit into a permanent cast of the wearer.
A GM I played with allowed one of my teammates to take out a NPC wearing the armour with subsonic silenced rounds. Likewise, knives and arrows passed through it with no side effects other than releasing a vile poisonous goo from the punctured armour straight into the entry wound.
After that the remaining NPC Mercs wore kevlar and ceramic plates over their goo suits.
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Current offensive frag grenades use a winding of fine brittle wire to make the fragments. On hard ground these tiny staple like projectiles can shred a man three meters away and wound him at ten.
What would a grenade made with a carbon nanotube casing with roving which would shatter into billions of tiny X-ray invisible fragments do? and would the carbon fragments even raise an immune response from the body? or would they be allowed to sit there with no symptoms until they moved one day years later to puncture an artery?
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You mean "Variable Sword," right?
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I'm just guessing that our average Joe can't buy, let alone make, a nanotube, even if he had the resources, right?
... so I guess that makes it interesting to nerds and other disaffected types, being intimate with the condition.
Nanotubes are quite volatile in many conditions, just like conventional silicon when it is thoroughly etched with cavities
Aren't all the outreaching rebels turned into tools for speeding up the pace of totalitarianism, anyways?
Wow man, what a convincing argument, with GO in all caps too. You really demonstrate the validity of your argument with your tact and extensive vocabulary.
Oh, btw, there are a lot of people who aren't "leftist"s who hate Bush, take for example, nearly everyone outside of the US.
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I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Duh! Don't you know? The harder you hit it, the stiffer the entire thing becomes! Haven't you played with Ooblic? =P
So its flexible for wear and hard when you get hit! Although, i'm not sure how they got it from being so sticky when its soft.
a lot more of those "priceless" pictures showing up on the net. Girls wearing nanotube clothes, only to have them explode off of them because they were too close to the camera flash.
I don't really know why, but DAMN that was funny. Well done.
> Despite not actually stopping blows, chainmail was still a very good piece of armor....Stopped arrows pretty well, too.
y /longbow.html:
Not true, actually. See, for example, http://gondolin.hist.liv.ac.uk/~azaroth/universit
"a knight of William de Braose was hit by an arrow that went through his mail skirts, his mail leggings, his thigh, back through the other side of the leggings, through the wood of his saddle and into the horse's flank"
Modern tests have shown that mail armour provided little resistace to arrows at typical direct-shot ranges (up to ~30 yards), which is a large part of why the English armies were so effective before the cannons were widely used.
> Without a really incredible amount of force, the spear would never pierce chainmail
For the same reasons, this is also not true. Mail armour was not so hard to pierce with a strong, straight thrust. Landing such an attack undeflected, however, would have been tough against a skilled opponent.
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A shirt that dosn't rip would be pretty nice i think. Not like there's drive by's in the computer room...
It's the next inevitable phase
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