Ramya Tunuguntla, an LLNL postdoctoral researcher and the first author on the paper, said that despite significant efforts in carbon nanotube transport studies, these predictions proved to be hard to validate, mainly because of the difficulties in creating sub-1-nm
diameter CNT pores.
Not exact matches
CNTs should leak less electricity than silicon because their tiny
diameters are easier to pinch shut.
The scientists synthesized the sponges by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process during which the
CNTs (multi-walled nanotubes with
diameters in the range of 30 to 50nm and lengths of tens to hundreds of micrometers,) self - assembled into a porous, interconnected, three - dimensional framework.
The team also found that water permeability in carbon nanotubes (
CNTs) with
diameters smaller than a nanometer (0.8 nm)...