Nagoya, Japan - Single-walled carbon nanotubes should theoretically be extremely strong, but it remains unclear why their experimental tensile strengths are lower and vary among nanotubes. A team at ...

Carbon nanotubes are moving from lab curiosities to workhorse components in quantum hardware, and one of the most striking examples is their use as single-photon light sources. By exploiting their ...

Discovered in 1991, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are cylindrical structures made of graphene sheets rolled into nanoscale tubes. Their atomic structure gives rise to exceptional properties: mechanical ...

(Nanowerk News) A strain-sensing smart skin developed at Rice University that uses very small structures, carbon nanotubes, to monitor and detect damage in large structures is ready for prime time.

Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical nanostructures made by rolling up sheets of graphene. Graphene sheets are only a single atom thick and this gives this form of carbon many special properties. For ...

Troy, N.Y. – A team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created hybrid structures that combine the best properties of carbon nanotubes and metal nanowires. The new structures, which ...

density polyethylene matrices with the carbon nanotube fillers out perform aluminum in specific energy absorption, making them candidates for applications in industries like automotive. Photo Credit: ...

French company Nawa technologies says it's already in production on a new electrode design that can radically boost the performance of existing and future battery chemistries, delivering up to 3x the ...

Carbon nanotubes have been predicted as game-changing structural materials due to their outstanding theoretical strength per weight (Fig. 1a). They have even encouraged the construction of a space ...

Carbon nanotubes' natural fluorescence enables a method to detect high strain concentrations that can lead to damage threatening the integrity of critical infrastructure like aircraft, buildings, ...