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New Technique for Creating Nanotube Sheets

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the very-small-news-desk dept.

Quetzalcoatl writes "A team of researchers has come up with a way to make strong, stable sheets of multiwall nanotubes at a rate of seven meters per minute. These sheets already display a number of remarkable qualities that lend them to many different applications, including artificial muscles, transparent antennas, video displays and solar cells."

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  1. Just remember... by skyman8081 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No Flash Photography of the nanotubes please.

    They will explode.
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    1. Re:Just remember... by greensasquatch · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The article states that the nanotubes channel the heat to hotspots that thenreach 1800 Kelvin. Perhaps this property could be used in the next generation of solar collectors?

  2. Nanoshells (speres) online @ PBS/Nova by turnstyle · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Rather than dwell on the dupe thing, here's something new to check out...

    PBS Nova is offering online playback of a really neat series called Science Now.

    The second episode included a neat profie of researcher Naomi Halas who studies nanoshells -- spheres rather than tubes. One potential appication is as a treatment for cancer.

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  3. Re:And Sarah Mclachlan sings! by SamSim · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In that case, wouldn't it make more sense to find some way to bring the still-popular story back to the top, instead of presenting the same thing as new news twice?

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