Tag archive: nanotube

Moore’s law may continue on its unyielding plod to make processors cheaper and faster, and computers may continue to shrink. But some have started to worry that, with the current materials and structures, the graph is going to plane off at some point and we won’t be able to do either. A team at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom report that they may have helped alleviate some of those worries. They report building nanotubes of… Read More

One of the most highly researched fields today is the production of carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes hold high promise for many uses from a new generation of cancer treatment down to better electronic devices. The trick for researchers is to find a method of creating the nanotubes in bulk. Researchers at Rice University have discovered a method of industrial-scale processing of pure carbon nanotube fibers. The breakthrough is the result of a… Read More

“What we've done is to bring biology to self-assemble an electronic device in a test tube,” Dr. Erez Braun, a physicist at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, told the New York Times. The scientists made transistors out of carbon nanotubes, cylindrical molecules that are about one ten-millionth of an inch in diameter and resemble rolled-up chicken wire. The new technique takes advantage of a… Read More