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Titania Nanotubes for Hydrogen Sensors?
Roland Piquepaille writes "Everybody is talking about carbon nanotubes these days. But what about titania nanotubes? Penn State researchers think they have a great potential for sensing hydrogen . According to this news release, "titania nanotubes are 1500 times better than the next best material for sensing hydrogen and may be one of the first examples of materials properties changing dramatically when crossing the border between real world sizes and nanoscopic dimensions, according to a Penn State materials scientist." And now, the very good news: titania nanotubes are cheap. So they'll be used in industrial quality control in food plants and as weapons against terrorism. My summary contains some more details."
Now we will be able to detect the terrorists at they attempt to crash Zeplins into our buildings!
Weapons Against Terrorism! Oh goody! We're saved!
Where to I invest?
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
Screw titania. When are they gonna get the kryptonite nanotubes?
A lit match works for hydrogen detection as well as many gas hydrocarbons. It is very versatile.
titania nanotubes are 1500 times better than the next best material for sensing hydrogen
Oxygen?
My daughter's name is Titania, sounds like she's been getting up to some serious mischief.
Everybody is talking about carbon nanotubes these days.
Yeah, can't walk down the street or ride a subway without hearing that incessant chatter about carbon nanotubes.
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine,Bona fide,Electrified, Titaniafied, Nanotube! What'd I say? Ned Flanders: Nanotube! Lyle Lanley: What's it called? Patty+Selma: Nanotube! Lyle Lanley: That's right! Nanotube! Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud... Lyle Lanley: But tt detects hydrogen clouds. Apu: Is there a chance the tube could bend? Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend. Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs? Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs. Abe: Were you sent here by the devil? Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level. Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can. Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man. I swear it's Springfield's only choice... Throw up your hands and raise your voice! All: Nanotube! Lyle Lanley: What's it called? All: Nanotube! Lyle Lanley: Once again... All: Nanotube! Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken... Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken! All: Nanotube! Nanotube! Nanotube! [big finish] Nanotube! Homer: Nano... D'oh!
Well, clearly the reason we haven't found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is because Saddam also invented an invisibility ray, which he used first to make all of the Al Qaeda operatives he's working with invisible, and then to make the weapons of mass destruction invisible. You may think I'm kidding, but you'll be sorry when you're attacked by an INVISIBLE shark with a laser on its head.
Now, what we need to do to is to make a really fine, really strong, really big net, which we can use to drag Iraq. So we weave some of these nanotubes into a big net, and we catch the invisible bad guys. Simple.
Of course, the net won't be ready for a few decades. Luckily, the American public knows that if we have a good faith effort underway to prove our allegations, that's good enough for them. Clearly there's invisible ties between Saddam and Al Qaeda and invisible WMDs, or it'd be kinda stupid to waste millions of dollars on a really big net!
Thank God above that we have the sense to protect ourselves against imaginary egomaniacal Blofeld-clones when the only proven threat against us is some guys with knives and some pissed off skinheads.
they are fair.. but I prefer to wait for Oberon nanotubes.
meh
"nanotube", "microsoft", how many more euphemisms will people design to describe a limp dick?
Titania is that busty bartender from Simpsons, that won the bartending contest.. I am all for Titania!
Oh.. wait, that was titanica. nevermind...
It's simply amazing and can detect hydrogen from 1 ppm to 4%. Luckily there is just enough floating around to guarantee success every time. Amaze your friends, take it outside, show-off as you brilliantly hold the detector in hand and proclaim, "Yes, we are not in a vacuum."
Did I mention that your friends would be amazed?