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World Record: Four-Centimeter-Long Carbon Nanotube
colonist writes "University of California scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and chemists from Duke University have recently grown a four-centimeter-long, single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT): a new world record. Previous SWNTs were a few millimeters long. Yuntian Zhu and his colleagues used a process called 'catalytic chemical vapor deposition' from ethanol (alcohol) vapor. From their abstract: 'Our results suggest the possibility of growing SWNTs continuously without any apparent length limitation.' Zhu: 'although this discovery is really only a beginning, the continued development of longer length carbon nanotubes could result in nearly endless applications. Actually, the potential uses for long carbon nanotubes are probably limited only by our imagination.'"
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they'd have 13 inches already, without all that expensive equiptment!
Wonderous stuff, if only to know that the most brilliant uses for this haven't been thought of yet.
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the potential uses for long carbon nanotubes are probably limited only by our imagination
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Yuntian Zhu and his colleagues used a process called 'catalytic chemical vapor deposition' from ethanol (alcohol) vapor.
So in other words, they're having a few beers in the lab one night, and one of them spills it into the testing appratus.
Scientist #1:"Dude? What have you done?"
Scientist #2: (Frenzied running in circles) "Oh my God!! Oh my God!! Oh my God!! Oh my God!! Oh my God!! Oh my God!! Oh my God!!"
Scientist #3: "Uhhh, guys, something's happening..."