Sentences with phrase «nanotube pores»

Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) scientists, in collaboration with researchers at Northeastern University, have developed carbon nanotube pores that can exclude salt from seawater.

Lawrence Livermore scientists are developing a flexible membrane with sub-5 nanometer single - walled carbon nanotube pores - a key component of protective, yet breathable fabrics.

To provide high breathability, the new composite material takes advantage of the unique transport properties of carbon nanotube pores.

The transport rates in these nanotube pores, which form one - dimensional water wires, also exceed those of biological channels and man - made proton conductors, making carbon nanotubes the fastest known proton conductor.

In the new research, LLNL researchers used carbon nanotube pores to line up water molecules into perfect one - dimensional chains and showed that they allow proton transport rates to approach the ultimate limits for the Grotthuss transport mechanism.

The bottom layer of the material, described April 3 at the Materials Research Society spring meeting, features carbon nanotube pores embedded within a flexible synthetic polymer film.

Not exact matches

As it squeezes through the pores, the gas is forced into contact with the catalyst, and carbon nanotubes begin to form.

They used pieces of grocery plastic bags which were vaporized in a furnace to produce carbon layers that line the pores in the membrane to make the tiny cylinders (the carbon nanotubes).

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.

The LLNL team fabricated flexible polymeric membranes with aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) channels as moisture conductive pores.