>> These alternative products are also backed by the biggest names in the business: IBM, Novell, Red Hat, HP, and Sun.
HP supports Linux? Tell that to my Pavilion and its evil fascist BIOS with its stupid proprietary "repair partition" which I want to get rid of but am afraid the BIOS will choke on me if I do.
I hate this piece of crap.
The properties of a carbon nanotube change depending on the length - mostly like a length of spaghetti, it becomes more likely to snap the longer it is. It also gets "stickier" - each ring of six carbons is like a benzene ring which has a cloud of electrons either side of it, so things like ions and polar molecules hug the negative charge. The longer the tube, the more benzene-like rings, the more negative charge, the "stickier" it is.
There's also a lot of research where they attach hydroxyl groups or various other things and the tube has interesting properties, such as for catalysis or in structure (although it's unlikely we'll build a space elevator anytime soon).
Hope that helps.:)
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>> These alternative products are also backed by the biggest names in the business: IBM, Novell, Red Hat, HP, and Sun. HP supports Linux? Tell that to my Pavilion and its evil fascist BIOS with its stupid proprietary "repair partition" which I want to get rid of but am afraid the BIOS will choke on me if I do. I hate this piece of crap.
The properties of a carbon nanotube change depending on the length - mostly like a length of spaghetti, it becomes more likely to snap the longer it is. It also gets "stickier" - each ring of six carbons is like a benzene ring which has a cloud of electrons either side of it, so things like ions and polar molecules hug the negative charge. The longer the tube, the more benzene-like rings, the more negative charge, the "stickier" it is. There's also a lot of research where they attach hydroxyl groups or various other things and the tube has interesting properties, such as for catalysis or in structure (although it's unlikely we'll build a space elevator anytime soon). Hope that helps. :)