carbon nanotubes

Chemists have long dreamed of the possibility of buckyballs, graphene, and carbon nanotubes. Science, as usual, took some time to catch up. Today's question is, how far are we from a carbon-powered jetpack future? Wahoo!

Design, infrastructure, and slow adoption rates are all challenges to the adoption of electric vehicles. Initially available only as smaller passenger vehicles, EV trucks and SUVs are becoming more commonplace. But increased vehicle size…

Rice University engineers have been studying how electrons act when confronted with the Russian doll-like structure of multiwalled tubes. The Rice lab of materials theorist Boris Yakobson has now calculated the impact of curvature of…

With their remarkable electrical conductivity, exceptional tensile strength and thermal conductivity, carbon nanotubes are valuable to so many areas of technology, including electronics, optics, and composite materials. The problem faced…

Carbon-neutral fuels are crucial for making aviation and maritime transport sustainable. ETH researchers have developed a solar plant to produce synthetic liquid fuels that release as much CO2 during their combustion as previously extracted…

Highly stretchable supercapacitors that can power wearable electronics are a step closer to becoming reality with a newly developed supercapacitor made from crumpled nanotube forests that can stretch to 800% of their original size and last…