Sentences with phrase «nanotube sheets»

Liu et al. created superelastic conducting fibers by depositing carbon nanotube sheets onto a prestretched rubber core (see the Perspective by Ghosh).

Looking to solve this problem on its manned and unmanned aircraft, the U.S. Air Force will by the end of the year to kick off an 18 - month study of the use of carbon nanotube sheets to create a shielding layer on the surfaces of lightweight composites.

Nanocomp's carbon nanotube sheets are designed to act as a «Faraday cage» that can block out external static electrical fields from sensitive circuitry.

In the as - prepared electroactive threads, the carbon nanotube sheets coated the fiber core with a thickness of less than half a micron.

Woven from conductive thread built on microscopic carbon nanotube sheets, this fiber could one day help power human - sized electronic wearables and high - performance solar cells.

As the fuel reacts with oxygen above the surface of the nanotube sheet, it releases a charge that make the sheet expand.

Not exact matches

Carbon nanotubes are sheets of carbon atoms that roll up like chicken wire.

Rafiee is developing a way to line a hydrogen vehicle's fuel tank with a one - atom - thick layer of graphene, essentially a sheet of single - walled carbon nanotubes that have been opened up and laid flat, so that the tank can better store and release hydrogen.

By applying a voltage across a carbon nanotube — a rolled - up sheet of carbon atoms — the team can generate a powerful electric field.

The cellulose forms a flexible sheet studded with embedded nanotubes that can be peeled away from the substrate.

The nanotubes make the sheet as black as coal, but only a small quantity is needed.

Carbon nanotubes could be highly conductive along the 1D nanotube length and two - dimensional graphene sheets in the 2Dplane.

All can be made with carbon nanotubes, sprayed like ink onto flexible plastic sheets or other substrates.

One reason it's tricky to make and hook up nanowires, made of single - crystal silicon, or nanotubes, made of molecule - thick sheets of carbon, is that they are fragile and can easily break when transported from one substrate to another.

The research team, which included Zhaolin Liu and colleagues from the A * STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering with colleagues from Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore, combined nanometer - sized crystals of this material with sheets of carbon or carbon nanotubes.

In a paper published in the journal Materials and Design, engineers from FSU's High - Performance Materials Institute, in collaboration with scientists from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Lyon, France, detail the impressive properties and cost - effective manufacturing process of an advanced series of motion sensors made using buckypaper — razor thin, flexible sheets of pure, exceptionally durable carbon nanotubes.

Carbon nanotubes are well known to be electroactive and mechanically stable; they can be spun and aligned in sheets.

FAMU - FSU College of Engineering doctoral candidate Joshua DeGraff developed an advanced class of scalable motion sensors using silver ink electrodes and sheets of pure carbon nanotube buckypaper.

Sheets of graphene, one to a few atoms thick, and aligned, single - walled carbon nanotubes self - assemble into an interconnected prorous network that run the length of the fiber.

Carbon nanotubes are tiny hexagonal tubes, made by rolling sheets of graphene, said Rasel Das, first author of the paper.

Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari and alumnus Navid Sakhavand first built atom - level computer models of pillared graphene — sheets of graphene connected by covalently bonded carbon nanotubes — to discover their strength and electrical properties as well as their thermal conductivity.

One company's special manufacturing process turns out yarns and sheets millions of time the size of normal nanotubes.

The team used a plasma - enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) process to grow the carbon nanotubes, while optimizing the plasma growth conditions to produce MWCNTs with tips made of deployed graphene sheets.

Nanotubes can be envisioned as one - atom thick sheets of carbon that have been rolled into tubes.

A representative material of this type is carbon nanotubes, which are rolled sheets of the graphene hexagonal network, which is only one carbon atom thick.

The Tour lab had already used nanotubes to reinforce two - dimensional sheets of graphene.

The team's second artificial muscle is made from sheets of carbon nanotubes, coated in a catalyst.

The silk — produced naturally by the spiders, incorporating graphene and carbon nanotubes (rolled up graphene sheets) introduced in their environment — had enhanced mechanical properties of up to three times the strength and ten times the toughness of the unmodified silks.

He works with graphene, a stronger - than - steel infinitesimally thin lattice of tightly packed carbon atoms, and carbon nanotubes — sheets of graphene rolled into hollow tubes with walls that are just one atom thick.

Buckypaper sheets are made using densely packed single - walled carbon nanotubes.

Sheets of paper or fabric made from carbon nanotubes could prove useful for allowing satellites to safely manage static electricity while in space, particularly because there is no way to provide electrical grounding once they're in orbit, says Karla Strong, a materials engineer for the Thermal Sciences & Materials branch within the ARFL / RX.

He polarised a powder of carbon nanotubes so that the tubes would stick to the naturally charged silk, then mixed the materials with a few drops of water and pressed them between two sheets of Teflon.

Nanocomp says it can produce nanotubes that are tens to hundreds of times as long, forming carbon yarns and sheets (yarns up to one kilometer in length, with a tensile strength better than steel, and sheets made in 18 - square - foot sections).

The crucial element is a carbon nanotube, a hollow structure made of sheets of carbon only one atom thick.

The next step, Chen said, is to build biomimetic membranes by incorporating natural membrane proteins or other synthetic water channels such as carbon nanotubes into these sheet matrices.

Angela Belcher's nanotubes are made out of hollow sheets of carbon that are only a single atom thick.

The researchers, led by Nicola Maria Pugno, who is head of the Laboratory of Bio-inspired and Graphene Nanomechanics at the University of Trento, achieved their results by simply spraying Pholcidae spiders with water containing different types of single - walled carbon nanotubes (which are rolled up sheets of graphite) or graphene (which is a sheet of carbon just one atom thick).

Miralon sheet and tape products are pure carbon nanotube (CNT) non-woven materials that can be used in a variety of applications to lightweight and enhance product or system performance.

Photo: Wikipedia, CC But With all the Advantages of Supercapacitors As you can see above, graphene is a one - atom thick sheet of carbon atoms, very similar to carbon nanotubes, except for the «tube» part.