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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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Hydrocoptic marselvanes here we come! What's next, prefamulated amulite?
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You unzip your fly in anticipation of a nanotube?
I know size isn't supposed to matter, but....
exactly what are you going to put in that nanotube?
A nanotubesnake?
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