carbon nanotube

American  

[kahr-buhn na-noh-toob] / ˈkɑr bən ˈnæ noʊˌtub /

noun

• carbon nanotubes
  plural

1. Physical Chemistry. a tubular structure having a diameter on the nanometer scale, consisting of one or more sheets of graphene rolled into a cylinder; a cylindrical carbon molecule.

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carbon nanotube Scientific  

1. The most common form of nanotube, composed entirely of carbon atoms.

2. See more at nanotube

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Derived Forms

• carbon-nanotube
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• carbon nanotubes
  plural

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carbon nanotube

"I am particularly proud of Jacques for pursuing the discovery that we can combine carbon nanotube filtration and shaking to tune the characteristics of these wafer-scale films," Kono said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2023

This different perspective allowed the researchers to identify electrons as the main culprit behind friction between the carbon nanotube and water.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2022

But scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported in September the creation of a carbon nanotube coating that they claim captures better than 99.995 of the incident light.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2019

The carbon nanotube device is far from a modern computer processing unit, but it churned out the message: “Hello, World! I am RV16XNano, made from CNTs.”

From Nature ● Aug. 27, 2019

Massive elevators would scramble up the carbon nanotube ribbon, grabbing hold of it with robotic arms, ferrying people and cargo out of our planet's gravity well without wasting millions of dollars on rockets and fuel.

From Slate ● May 15, 2013