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Could a new superlubricity coating reduce economic losses of 1 trillion dollars from friction and wear?

Could a new superlubricity coating reduce economic losses of 1 trillion dollars from friction and wear?

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Turning plastic waste into valuable nanomaterials with a new “Flash Joule” technique

Turning plastic waste into valuable nanomaterials with a new

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A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity by scavenging energy from its environment

A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity by scavenging energy from its environment

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Turning clothing into an early warning system for injury or illness

Turning clothing into an early warning system for injury or illness

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Using old newspapers to grow carbon nanotubes on a large scale

Using old newspapers to grow carbon nanotubes on a large scale

A research collaboration between Rice University and the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University has found that old newspapers can be used as a low cost, eco-friendly m... Read more

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The blackest black material . . . ever

The blackest black material . . . ever

Made from carbon nanotubes, the new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materials. With apologies to “Spinal Tap,” it appears that black can, indeed, get more black. MIT enginee... Read more

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Nanotube fibers can rewire damaged hearts

Nanotube fibers can rewire damaged hearts

Texas Heart doctors confirm Rice-made, conductive carbon threads are electrical bridges Thin, flexible fibers made of carbon nanotubes have now proven able to bridge damaged heart tissues an... Read more

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Directly converting carbon fibers and nanotubes into diamond fibers at ambient temperature and pressure

Directly converting carbon fibers and nanotubes into diamond fibers at ambient temperature and pressure

Research from North Carolina State University has demonstrated a new technique that converts carbon fibers and nanotubes into diamond fibers at ambient temperature and pressure in air using... Read more

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Artificial cells and hybrid systems that combine biological cells and man-made components come closer

Artificial cells and hybrid systems that combine biological cells and man-made components come closer

Proteins in lipid membranes are one of the fundamental building blocks of biological functionality. Lawrence Livermore researchers have figured out how to mimic their role using carbon nanot... Read more

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Have flexible, transient and biodegradable electronics finally arrived?

Have flexible, transient and biodegradable electronics finally arrived?

Pitt researchers find that nanotube interactions with silk fibroins hold the key to developing flexible, degradable electronics The silk fibers produced by Bombyx mori, the domestic silkworm... Read more

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Nanoscale electronics getting ready to get big

Nanoscale electronics getting ready to get big

Wits PhD student finds a way to control the spin transport in networks of the smallest conductor known to man Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand have found ways to control th... Read more

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Imagine a box you plug into the wall that cleans your toxic air and pays you cash

Imagine a box you plug into the wall that cleans your toxic air and pays you cash

Imagine a box you plug into the wall that cleans your toxic air and pays you cash. That’s essentially what Vanderbilt University researchers produced after discovering the blueprint for turn... Read more

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Carbon nanotubes could become as usable as common plastics

Carbon nanotubes could become as usable as common plastics

Researchers discover that cresols disperse carbon nanotubes at unprecedentedly high concentrations Northwestern University’s Jiaxing Huang is ready to reignite carbon nanotube research. And... Read more

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New composite carbon nanotube material makes a stable 3D network

New composite carbon nanotube material makes a stable 3D network

CAU research team develops new composite material made of carbon nanotubes Extremely lightweight, electrically highly conductive, and more stable than steel: due to their unique properties,... Read more

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Carbon nanotubes could pose a cancer risk similar to asbestos

Carbon nanotubes could pose a cancer risk similar to asbestos

A study by researchers at the MRC Toxicology Unit has provided strong evidence that certain carbon nanotubes used in manufacturing could pose the same cancer risk as asbestos. As well as hig... Read more

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