Sentences with phrase «nanotubes acting»

The new devices have luminescence systems that function like cathode ray tubes, with carbon nanotubes acting as cathodes, and a phosphor screen in a vacuum cavity acting as the anode.

However, purified single - walled nanotubes in THF retarded plant development by 45 percent compared to single - walled nanotubes in water, suggesting the nanotubes act as a carrier for the toxic substance.

The research was carried out by experts in synthetic and theoretical chemistry, materials and electron microscopy and builds on Professor Khlobystov's concept of carbon nano test tubes (World's tiniest test tubes, Guinness Book of World Records 2005), where the nanotube acts as a container for molecules.

The nanotubes act as an electrical conductor, capturing the electrons from the plant material and sending them along a wire.

Not exact matches

The resulting cluster of nanotubes, fused to two palladium electrodes, acted as a transistor (Nano Letters, DOI: 10.1021 / nl050405n).

Team members sprayed carbon nanotubes onto a plastic film — two such films act as both the device's electrodes and charge collectors.

Metal chips that slide back and forth inside carbon nanotubes could form the 1s and 0s needed to act as archival storage devices.

The carbon nanotubes integrated into the waveguide act as a small light source.

Once these peptides find a bacterium, they nestle into its outer membrane, then shape - shift themselves into nanotubes, which act as spigots, draining the cell and killing it within minutes.

The resulting cluster of nanotubes, fused to two palladium electrodes, acted as a transistor.

Artificial muscles made with carbon nanotubes or a shape memory alloy can be designed to act as fuel cells, thus alleviating a need for a remote battery power source.

Depending on how the CNTs grow, a fraction of these carbon nanotubes can end up behaving like metallic wires that always conduct electricity, instead of acting like semiconductors that can be switched off.

The nanotubes also showed that they could act as sensors.

The big advantage of the nanotube muscle is that it can also act as a capacitor, storing up electric energy it does not immediately need for later use, Baughman explains.

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

Many nanosensors have also been made from non-biological materials, such as carbon nanotubes, that can both sense and signal, acting as wireless nanoantennas.

The folded DNA then acts as a scaffold onto which researchers can attach and organize all kinds of nanometer - scale components, from fluorescent molecules to electrically conductive carbon nanotubes to drugs.

The carbon nanotube bundles, when integrated into a system, act as a reinforcement, providing enhanced mechanical properties.

He won the Feynman Prize in Experimental Nanotechnology in 2008, the NASA Space Act Award in 2008 for his development of carbon nanotube reinforced elastomers and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society for his achievements in organic chemistry in 2007.