Sentences with phrase «called nanotube»

While he has mostly learned what does not work, he filed for a patent on a so - called nanotube detangler in May, and a second patent for a CNT growth technology that he keeps under wraps.

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Eventually each atom's outermost electron detaches and enters the nanotube through a process called quantum tunnelling.

Fourteen years after the discovery of the pencil - shaped molecules called carbon nanotubes, scientists are finally learning to exploit their remarkable properties.

Their suggestions include using a nanotechnology called «resistive memory» to keep electronics humming and using carbon nanotube shielding — originally made by NASA to shield spacecraft from radiation — for protection.

Using a method called immersed surface accumulation 3 - D printing (ISA - 3D printing), the research team successfully created the egg - beater microstructure in samples made from plastic and carbon nanotubes.

The angle I've been devoting my efforts to is a new kind of conducting cable made of what are called armchair quantum wires: single - walled carbon nanotubes [buckytubes] with a particular structure.

Lieber fashioned a tip from a carbon nanotube and affixed at the end of it a molecular fragment called a carboxyl group.

The team coated flexible strands of silicon rubber with a mix of long chains of carbon atoms, called carbon nanotubes, and tiny bunches of silver molecules, called silver nanoparticles.

And in 2006, researchers at Dresden Technical University, Germany, studied the swords with an electron microscope and discovered that their strength probably comes from carbon nanotubes and nanowires made from a mineral called cementite.

This so - called carbon nanotube could be likened to an unimaginably long garden hose: a hollow tube just a nanometer or so in diameter but perhaps millions of times as long as it is wide.

The researchers turned to cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer on earth, and mixed it in a simple process with a kind of silicone called polydimethylsiloxane — the stuff of breast implants — and carbon nanotubes.

Pulickel Ajayan and Sumio Iijima of NEC's Fundamental Research Laboratories in Tsukuba put some nanotubes in a vacuum chamber and deposited lead particles on them using a technique called electron beam evaporation.

This discovery challenges a previously accepted view that metal carbides are needed to create nanotubes, through a process called chemical vapour deposition.

The resulting «designer nanotubes,» she adds, promise to be far cheaper to produce on a large scale than those created with so - called DNA origami, another innovative technique for using DNA as a nanoscale construction material.

Under a strong electric field, the cathode emits tight, high - speed beams of electrons through its sharp nanotube tips — a phenomenon called field emission.

The researchers coat the nanotubes with a fuel called trinitramine and ignite it with a laser or an electric spark.

In the paper, researchers examined the effect of a fluoropolymer coating called PVDF - TrFE on single - walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) transistors and ring oscillator circuits, and demonstrated that these coatings can substantially improve the performance of single - walled carbon nanotube devices.

Then in 1991, while studying the unique atomic structures called buckyballs, which are created by electrically charging carbon soot, Sumio Iijima of Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan, discovered the first nanotubes — fantastically strong cylindrical carbon - atom constructions less than two nanometers wide and of varying lengths.

Ying Zhou and Reiko Azumi from Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology reviewed the latest research on the use of carbon nanotubes in manufacturing an important component of optoelectronic devices called transparent conductive films (TCFs).

Called graphene, it is essentially a nanotube unrolled — a single layer of atoms arranged like a honeycomb.

Even more powerful artificial muscles have been made from yarns spun from hollow carbon fibers called single - walled nanotubes (SWNTs).

In the past few decades we have learned about the soccer - ball - shaped spheres called buckyballs, soon followed by the microscopic rolls of chicken wire we know as carbon nanotubes.

The team coated a silicon wafer with a layer of upright nanotubes, spaced 100 nanometres apart through a process called chemical vapour deposition.

An international team of scientists made the new material, called «twistron harvesters,» by tying a carbon nanotube string into a tangled weave of carbon and submerging it into an electrolyte gel.

«The discovery of graphene is but a continuing evolution on how we analyze, treat, synthesize carbon based nanomaterials which includes the fullerenes, nanotubes, and now C polymorph platelets called graphene,» explains Dr. Advincula.

Depending on the shape, the application, or the components, nanomaterials may be called by a variety of different names, including nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanofilms, nanoshells, nanospheres, nanowires, nanoclays, nanoconcrete, nanopolymers, and much more.

A bacterial virus called M13 was genetically engineered to control the arrangement of carbon nanotubes, improving solar - cell efficiency by nearly one - third.