CHROMATOGRAPHY: Scientists Sort Carbon Nanotubes.

Analytic Separations News;  January 1, 2004 ;     376 words ......chromatography and DNA that sorts carbon nanotubes. The research, published in the journal...Sequence- Dependent DNA Assembly. Carbon nanotubes possess excellent electrical properties...When they are fabricated, however, carbon nanotubes of different electronic types randomly...

Carbon Nanotubes That Look Like Asbestos, Behave Like Asbestos.

PR Newswire Europe;  May 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ......shows inhaling long, thin carbon nanotubes may result in asbestos-relat...study published today in Nature Nanotechnology suggests some forms of carbon nanotubes -- a poster child for...long, thin multi-walled carbon nanotubes that look like asbestos...nearly 20 years ...

SANDIA RESEARCHER EXAMINES PHYSICS OF CARBON NANOTUBES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ......issued the following press release: Carbon nanotubes, described as the reigning celebrity...the definitive text on the topic. Carbon nanotubes are long thin cylinders composed entirely...carbon-carbon bond is very strong, making carbon nanotubes very robust and resistant to any ...

Carbon Nanotubes That Look Like Asbestos, Behave Like Asbestos

U.S. Newswire;  May 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ......New study shows inhaling long, thin carbon nanotubes may result in asbestos-related disease...Nanotechnologysuggests some forms of carbon nanotubes -- a poster child for the nanotechnology...show that long, thin multi-walled carbon nanotubes that look like asbestos fibers, behave...

New Techniques Pave Way for Carbon Nanotubes in Electronic Devices.

M2 Presswire;  November 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Techniques Pave Way for Carbon Nanotubes in Electronic Devices...vaunted applications of carbon nanotubes require the ability...approach, for placing carbon nanotube patterns...any shape and size. Carbon nanotubes attached to a thin...November issue of Nature ...

METHOD COULD HELP CARBON NANOTUBES BECOME COMMERCIALLY VIABLE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 4, 2006 ;     518 words ......following news release: Carbon nanotubes are intriguing new...methods for synthesizing carbon nanotubes produce mixtures of...differences, resulting in carbon nanotubes that are unsuitable...sorting single-walled carbon nanotubes promises to overcome...buoyant densities ...

HYBRID STRUCTURES COMBINE STRENGTHS OF CARBON NANOTUBES, NANOWIRES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 8, 2007 ;     605 words ......that combine the best properties of carbon nanotubes and metal nanowires. The new structures...overcome some of the key hurdles to using carbon nanotubes in computer chips, displays, sensors...devices. The impressive conductivity of carbon nanotubes makes them promising materials ...

NEW TECHNIQUES PAVE WAY FOR CARBON NANOTUBES IN ELECTRONIC DEVICES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ......electronic devices. "Carbon nanotubes offer promising...lead author of the Nature Nanotechnology paper. But since...conductivity of carbon nanotubes, good contact between...small scale, making carbon nanotubes a natural choice...

DuPont-led Scientists Unveil Key Nanotechnology Discovery with Use of DNA;...

PR Newswire;  December 2, 2003 ;     613 words ......through the use of DNA that sorts carbon nanotubes. This research in the emerging field...by Sequence-Dependent DNA Assembly. Carbon nanotubes possess excellent electrical properties...When they are fabricated, however, carbon nanotubes of different electronic types randomly...

Carbon nanotubes to detect defects in composites.(NANOMATERIALS)

Advanced Composites Bulletin;  December 1, 2006 ;     345 words ......composites by using a network of tiny carbon nanotubes, which act in much the same manner...the scientists say. Specifically, carbon nanotubes are embedded uniformly throughout...research leader, Tsu-Wei Chou, said Carbon nanotubes are very light, with a density about...

Simplified process creates long carbon nanotubes

Chemical Engineering Progress;  July 1, 2002 ;     493 words ......making continuous hair-like strands of carbon nanotubes as long as 8 in. has been developed...produces strands of ordered single-wall carbon nanotubes when n-- hexane is pyrolyzed in the...world applications, Ajayan says. "Carbon nanotubes are generally microns in length, which...

Now Arkema has commercial carbon nanotubes.(MATERIALS MARKETPLACE)

British Plastics & Rubber;  February 1, 2006 ;     244 words ......doubled its capacity for carbon nanotubes and started tip a pilot...commercially-priced materials. Carbon nanotubes have wide-ranging potential...started its R & D into carbon nanotubes in 2003, and a year ago...

Hybrid Structures Combine Strengths of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires; New...

M2 Presswire;  January 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Hybrid Structures Combine Strengths of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires; New wires could create...that combine the best properties of carbon nanotubes and metal nanowires. The new structures...overcome some of the key hurdles to using carbon nanotubes in computer chips, displays, ...

Carbon Nanotechnologies Announces the Allowance of a U.S. Patent for...

Advanced Materials & Composites News;  July 19, 2004 ;     486 words ......S. Patent, this one for coated single-wall carbon nanotubes and ropes of single-wall carbon nanotubes. The technology gives CNI a patent on a composition that is single-wall carbon nanotubes with a nanometer-scale coating of another material...

Texas Inventors Develop Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Separation Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 24, 2006 ;     331 words ......aggregates that comprise single-wall carbon nanotubes and a method for making the same...method for separating single-wall carbon nanotubes from an aqueous slurry comprises adding...aqueous slurry comprising single-wall carbon nanotubes, isolating at least some of the single-wa...