Earlier research at
Rice by chemist and chemical engineer Matteo Pasquali, a co-author on the new paper, used an acid dissolution process to keep the nanotubes separated until they could be spun into fibers.
Not exact matches
A porous material invented
by the
Rice lab of
chemist James Tour sequesters carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, at ambient temperature with pressure provided
by the wellhead and lets it go once the pressure is released.
«We've seen claims
by groups that say that they can coat whole silicon wafers with monolayer sheets of graphene cheaply,» reports James M. Tour, a
chemist at
Rice University.
The new work led
by Rice chemist Zachary Ball, Baylor pediatrician Michele Redell and MD Anderson oncologist David Tweardy appears this week in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
The discovery came while British
chemist Harold Kroto was visiting the
Rice University lab of American
chemist Richard Smalley; they were trying to create new forms of carbon that might exist in interstellar space
by bombarding graphite with a laser beam.
The substances introduced
by Rice synthetic organic
chemist K.C. Nicolaou are similar in their cancer - fighting mechanism to paclitaxel, the drug for which he is best - known, but have superior properties.
The single - walled carbon nanotubes in new fibers created at
Rice line up like a fistful of uncooked spaghetti through a process designed
by chemist Angel Martí and his colleagues.
The
Rice lab of
chemist James Tour uses commercial lasers to create thin, flexible supercapacitors
by burning patterns into common polymers.
They can be produced in bulk
by chemically «unzipping» carbon nanotubes, a process invented
by Rice chemist and co-author James Tour and his lab.