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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?