Plastic bags recycled into nanotubes
Waste polyethylene from shopping bags and other sources can easily be converted into carbon...
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A sprinkling of nanotubes makes plants shoot up
Adding carbon nanotubes to synthetic soil makes tomato seeds sprout sooner and the seedlings grow...
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World’s tiniest lamp spans quantum and classical physics
A new incandescent light with a carbon nanotube filament could explore incompatibilities between...
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Printed supercapacitor could feed power-hungry gadgets
A flexible supercapacitor, printed using carbon nanotubes, could give a power boost to even...
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Gas tank of the future takes a step closer
Chemists have produced a sponge-like material that stores 10% of its weight as hydrogen and might...
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Flawed nanotubes could be perfect silicon replacement
The paradox of perfection – that flaws make things perfect – could be the key to designing...
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Hot nanotube sheets produce music on demand
Sheets made of carbon nanotubes behave like a loudspeaker when zapped with a varying electric...
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Future cars could sport carbon-sponge gas tanks
Scientists in Greece have met a US Department of Energy challenge to create materials capable of...
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Nanotubes bring artificial photosynthesis a step nearer
Carbon nanotubes have the right properties to allow a key step in photosynthesis that has eluded...
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Nanotubes’ toxic effects ‘similar to asbestos’
Injecting carbon nanotubes into mice shows they can trigger similar toxic responses to asbestos...
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