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Novel Material Made from Carbon Nanotubes can Generate Electricity

MIT engineers have discovered a new way of generating electricity using tiny carbon particles that can create a current simply by interacting with liquid surrounding them.

8 Jun 2021

Chemically Modified Cotton Wool Helps Separate Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

The project was kickstarted in 2017 when a delegation of YTC America (subsidiary of Yazaki Corporation) visited Kazan Federal University.

20 Apr 2021

Shining up Carbon Nanodots: A New Synthesis Pathway for Enhanced Fluorescence

Scientists have developed a novel strategy to produce near-oxygenless carbon nanodots, helping shed light on the role of oxygen in their optical properties.

12 Apr 2021

Researchers Figure out How to Synthesize Zigzag Carbon Nanotubes

The existing technique for manufacturing carbon nanotubes—typically wrapped sheets of graphene—is not capable of enabling total control over their length, diameter, and type.

2 Apr 2021

Scientists Build the Smallest Cable Containing a Spin Switch

A research work published in Nature Communications, involving researchers from the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience (IMDEA) and the University of Sevilla, has measured for the first time the electrical conductivity of a single carbon nanotube with spin-crosslinked molecules inside it.

15 Mar 2021

Researchers Create Artificial Muscles by Twisting and Coiling Carbon Nanotubes

For more than 15 years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and their collaborators in the U.S., Australia, South Korea and China have fabricated artificial muscles by twisting and coiling carbon nanotube or polymer yarns. When thermally powered, these muscles actuate by contracting their length when heated and returning to their initial length when cooled. Such thermally driven artificial muscles, however, have limitations.

29 Jan 2021