Not exact matches
After being tightly packed
together, the
nanotubes are woven into the back of the jacket and inside the front of the vest (which always stays buttoned).
The Berkeley Lab scientists say this never - before - seen design rule could be used to piece
together complex nanosheet structures and other peptoid assemblies such as
nanotubes and crystalline solids.
Bond and her collaborators are using metal - coated
nanotubes bunched
together like a jungle canopy to amplify the signals of both the incident and Raman scattered light by exciting local electron plasmons.
The tricky bit, according to Martí, whose lab reported its results this month in the journal ACS Nano, is keeping the densely packed
nanotubes apart before they're drawn
together into a fiber.
The spaghetti - like PVA strands wrapped around the
nanotubes and helped hold them
together.
First tests with
nanotubes and catalysts In order to test the improved technique, Vadim Migunov,
together with his colleagues from the Ernst Ruska - Centre, examined an inorganic lanthanide
nanotube using the new sensor.
When a commercially produced «forest» of multiwalled carbon
nanotubes is cut into with a razor, drawing the blade out slowly pulls out an exquisitely fine web of
nanotubes held
together by intramolecular van der Waals forces.
The Challenge: Superstrong carbon
nanotubes have a wide array of potential applications, including lighter bulletproof vests and more responsive touch screens, but they have a tendency to clump
together, which makes them difficult to work with.
If such
nanotubes could be chained
together with no loss of strength, a piece as thin as sewing thread could lift a large automobile.
When covered in the gel and pulled, the carbon
nanotubes squeeze
together and generate a small current — enough to momentarily light up a light - emitting diode (as you can see in the video above).
Together, the expected results will provide fundamental mechanistic insights into the structure and function of the newly discovered interbacterial
nanotubes.