many people are hoping to use nanotubes for wires, replacing copper in in computer curcuits. why would you want to use a large mass of nanotubes as a wire? you would only take one nanotube at a time in that case, and single walled ones would be fine.
what you all seem to be forgetting about the article is that is says only single walled nanotubes that are bunched up together will explode. if you take a picture of nanotubes on their own, they wont. so you still can use singlewalled nanotubes in stuff, just not when they're buched up
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many people are hoping to use nanotubes for wires, replacing copper in in computer curcuits. why would you want to use a large mass of nanotubes as a wire? you would only take one nanotube at a time in that case, and single walled ones would be fine.
what you all seem to be forgetting about the article is that is says only single walled nanotubes that are bunched up together will explode. if you take a picture of nanotubes on their own, they wont. so you still can use singlewalled nanotubes in stuff, just not when they're buched up