Self-generating nanotubes. (Nanotechnology).

Advanced Ceramics Report,  January, 2003  

Tags: molecule, Nanotechnology, nanotube, Purdue University, team

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A team of scientists at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, says it has found a way of controlling the manufacture of nanotubes so that they can have precisely defined properties.

According to the researchers, the result is a range of nanotubes with excellent physical and chemical properties, each of which could lead to a different industrial application, such as reinforcement fibres for plastics. Rather than work with carbon or metals, as other groups have done, the team has formed nanotubes out of synthetic organic molecules. While carbon or metal versions have certain advantages, ...

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