nanotube
Britishnoun
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A hollow cylindrical or toroidal molecule made of one element, usually carbon. Nanotubes are being investigated as semiconductors and for uses in nanotechnology.
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See also fullerene
Example Sentences
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Decoding the nanotube data meant loading the data into a machine-learning algorithm, and telling the algorithm which samples came from patients with ovarian cancer, and which from people without it.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
The researchers used ferrocene and tetrathiafulvalene as electron donor molecules, which were absorbed through the windows of the nanotube crystals.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
Or take solar cells: this technique could be used to make nanotube semiconductors that convert a broader range of wavelengths into electricity, to harness more of the Sun's energy.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024
The researchers also showed that by changing the type of polymer that encircles a nanotube, they could engineer new types of semiconducting nanotubes.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024
Notably, the full virus was not required to trigger nanotube formation, only small sections of the virus coding for individual proteins were needed.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2023
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