Sentences with phrase «nanotubes also»

The nanotubes also don't suffer from copper's heat - leakage problems.

But the carbon nanotubes themselves also somehow seemed to make photosynthesis better, all on their own.

The nanotubes also showed that they could act as sensors.

The nanotubes also quickly snapped back into position to deflect a second bullet that might hit the same spot.

Not exact matches

Ultracapacitors using nanotubes have gone on to be a success, notably through FastCap Systems, a firm founded by John Cooley, also from MIT.

He was also the recipient of the Purdue College of Engineering's «Outstanding Dissertation Award» for his research on photoacoustic characterization of carbon nanotube array thermal interfaces.

These can be as modest as the particles of zinc oxide in sunscreens, but they can also be reinforcing fibers in new composites or carbon nanotube wires in ultraminiaturized electronics.

Researchers say they hastened new cell production by sending electrical surges through the nanotubes, which are also excellent conductors of electricity.

The team also sent a large current through the circuit to burn out any useless metallic nanotubes and ensure that only semiconducting nanotubes were left behind (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature12502).

Ice is also cleaner, cheaper and gentler on the nanotubes.

The computer also represents a victory for much - hyped carbon nanotube transistors, created in 1998 by Cees Dekker and his group at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

They could also store up to 1.7 % of their weight as hydrogen, about as much as carbon nanotubes could store.

The nanotubes» polymer coating may also be chemically manipulated to bind specific bioparticles flowing through the forest.

At the annual meeting of the American Physical Society and in the 12 March issue of Physical Review Letters, Kociak and his colleagues at the French national research agency CNRS and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka showed that empty nanotubes can also carry electron pairs between nonsuperconducting electrodes (in this case, metal pads made from a sandwich of aluminum oxide, platinum, and gold).

The same carbon nanotubes that make up the skeleton of the 1D battery can also accelerate the conversion of dissolved oxygen into hydroxide ions, a process that harms battery effectiveness if left uncontrolled but as a stand - alone process boasts therapeutic potential for treating cancer and bacterial infections.

The new study suggests that a third parameter — the nature of the junction between the graphene and nanotubes — should also be considered.

«Amazingly, by finely tuning the energies of propagating electrons, we found that, in addition to these resonance transmission channels, other resonances also are possible, with energies matching those of specific vibrations in carbon nanotubes,» he said.

They've also created nanotubes that can detect chemicals including TNT and the nerve gas sarin.

The system is faster than a regular X-ray machine because there are no filaments to warm up, and the multiple nanotube emitters can also take pictures from many different angles without moving.

That's exactly what a group of chemical engineers and biochemists attempted in a new study, embedding single - walled carbon nanotubes — microscopic tubes thinner than a human hair that can also absorb sunlight and convert it to electron flow — in living chloroplasts.

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.

However, this process also damages the carbon nanotubes.

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

Scientists Feihu Wang, Mikhail Itkis and Elena Bekyarova were looking at ways to improve the electrical behavior of carbon nanotubes, and as part of their research they also looked at whether they could modulate the transparency of the films.

The researchers have also used magnetic carbon nanotubes and activated carbon as absorbents.

The nanotubes can also be a drug delivery system.

These carbon nanotube quantum light emitters may be important for optically - based quantum information processing and information security, while also being of significant interest for ultrasensitive sensing, metrology and imaging needs and as photon sources for fundamental advances in quantum optics studies.

It's also likely that we could promote healing even more by incorporating a growth factor into the TiO2 nanotubes.

While the carbon nanotubes do not mix well in most media, they are dispersible in supercritical water or carbon dioxide, which also allows researchers to easily adjust how many molecules or catalysts are attached to the nanotubes.

The modular nature of Hammond's nanoparticles might also benefit either Belcher's light - responsive nanotubes or Bhatia's fragment - shedding nanosensors, by packing them into a layered particle that contains a chemo drug at its core.

While it's mainly designed to measure objects, it can also move tiny objects such as carbon nanotubes.

They also used it to deliver nanoparticles, including carbon nanotubes and quantum dots, which can be used to image cells and monitor what's happening inside them.

The nanotube sponges not only show exciting properties as a porous material but they also are very promising to be used practically in a short time.

Raman spectroscopy has become the prime method for the characterisation of carbon nanotubes and has also been adopted for investigating the properties of graphene.

Kono also expects the gated and aligned nanotube films will give physicists the opportunity to study Luttinger liquids, theoretical collections of interacting electrons in one - dimensional conductors.

Rice chemist Andrew Barron, also a professor at Swansea in the United Kingdom, and his team have figured out how to get nanotubes clean and in the process discovered why the electrical properties of nanotubes have historically been so difficult to measure.

The team also found that water permeability in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with diameters smaller than a nanometer (0.8 nm)...

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.

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«High purity carbon nanotube thin films not only have the potential to make inroads into current applications but also accelerate the development of emerging technologies such as organic light - emitting diodes and organic photovoltaic devices.

But the sensors aren't just useful for explosives — the researchers found that the coated nanotubes can also detect two pesticides that contain nitro - aromatic compounds.

Because they also needed a molecule that could release electrons when exposed to visible light, they covalently bonded a number of phthalocyanines (PCs)-- each of which releases one electron after absorbing light — to the nanotube.

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