Aging, deterioration and extreme events like earthquakes and hurricanes can take a toll on roads, bridges and other structures. With damage and defects often invisible, the search is on for systems that can monitor the health of structures and alert their owners to potential problems and even impending catastrophic failure.
The invention of the carbon nanobrush, which is a new nano carbon material, was announced by NEC Corporation on June 30, 2016. Carbon nanobrush is a fibrous aggregate of carbon nanohorns that are single-walled. NEC has globally become the first company to develop the carbon nanobrush.
A team of researchers from Masdar Institute are harnessing graphene’s unique and valuable properties of strength and electrical conductivity to assist the progress of technologies related to local industries like desalination and gas and oil.
Marianna Kharlamova (the Lomonosov Moscow State University Department of Materials Science) examined different types of carbon nanotubes' "stuffing" and classified them according to the influence on the properties of the nanotubes. The researcher's work was published in the high-impact journal Progress in Materials Science (impact factor -- 26.417).
Worldwide growing data volumes make conventional electronic processing reach its limits. Future information technology is therefore expected to use light as a medium for quick data transmission also within computer chips. Researchers under the direction of KIT have now demonstrated that carbon nanotubes are suited for use as on-chip light source for tomorrow’s information technology, when nanostructured waveguides are applied to obtain the desired light properties. The scientists now present their results in Nature Photonics. DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON. 2016.70
A team of researchers, led by chemist Paul Cherukuri from Rice University, have stumbled upon a Tesla coil’s robust force field, which causes the self-assembly of carbon nanotubes into long wires. This unique phenomenon has been dubbed as “Teslaphoresis.” The research findings have been reported by in the ACS Nano journal. Cherukuri suggests that this research would be the foundation toward scalable assembly of nanotubes from scratch.
A new and highly efficient technique has been developed for gene transfer by a group of researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
Researchers from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have explained that an accurately tuned carbon nanotube thin film can function as a thermoelectric power generator, which can then be used to capture and use waste heat.
Researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have demonstrated for the first time that carbon nanotubes, whose diameter measure almost eight-tenths of a nanometer, are capable of transporting protons in a more rapid manner than bulk water, by an order of magnitude.
Carbon, even in its elemental form, has a high bond versatility that allows for a variety of common materials, including graphite and diamond. Graphene, otherwise known as a layer of graphite, can be folded or rolled into fullerenes or carbon nanotubes, respectively.
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