carbon nanotube
noun
carbon nanotubes
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pluralof carbon nanotube.plural
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In her tests, Furtado used the group's techniques of chemical vapor deposition to grow densely packed forests of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
The approach involves "growing" a forest of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes -- hollow fibers of carbon, each so small that tens of billions of the nanotubes can stand in an area smaller than a fingernail.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
Now, MIT engineers have shown they can prevent cracks from spreading between composite's layers, using an approach they developed called "nanostitching," in which they deposit chemically grown microscopic forests of carbon nanotubes between composite layers.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
The researchers' transistors had a subthreshold swing of 140 mV/dec, which is better than subthreshold swings reported for other single-molecule transistors, and comparable to larger devices made from materials such as carbon nanotubes.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
The coalescence of buckminsterfullerene molecules to create nested carbon nanotubes helped to improve the precision of the experiments.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2024
