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Nanosensors can Track How Plants Respond to Stresses

MIT engineers have developed a way to closely track how plants respond to stresses such as injury, infection, and light damage, using sensors made of carbon nanotubes.

16 Apr 2020

Double-Walled Nanotubes Have Electro-Optical Advantages

Rice University theorists find that flexoelectric effects in double-walled carbon nanotubes could be highly useful for photovoltaic applications.

1 Apr 2020

Scientists Image Atomic Bonding Using Advanced Microscopy Techniques

For the first time, researchers have successfully captured and imaged the bonding between atoms with the help of sophisticated microscopy techniques.

20 Jan 2020

A New Approach to Making Airplane Parts, Minus the Massive Infrastructure

A modern airplane’s fuselage is made from multiple sheets of different composite materials, like so many layers in a phyllo-dough pastry.

17 Jan 2020

Scientists Synthetize New Carbon Nanotubes with 90% Selectivity

Researchers have successfully developed a certain type of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that have 90% selectivity, and have widened the present theory describing the synthesis of these potential nano-cylinders.

16 Dec 2019

Method for Using Low-Cost Newsprint from Newspapers to Grow Carbon Nanotubes

Some exciting information for carbon nanotube fans: Scientists at Rice and Swansea universities have formulated a method to utilize low-cost newsprint extracted from newspapers to grow nanotubes for the industry.

29 Nov 2019

Research Experiments to Grow Carbon Nanotubes on Newspapers

A study conducted by scientists at Rice University in collaboration with scientists at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University has shown that single-walled carbon nanotubes can be grown extensively on old newspapers, which is a cheap, environmentally-friendly material.

25 Nov 2019