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Offline Osidius The Emphatic

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Official "What Have Carbon Nanotubes Done?" Thread
« on: Jul 08, 2012, 01:02:17 AM »
I haven't been listening to SGU lately but I remember that carbon nanotubes would be a news item nearly every other week.

Today, I read about Dr. Guo Meng Zhao who claims to have found superconductivity within carbon nanotubes ~400 Kelvin.
I got it from a youtube video from a recent TED demonstration: Boaz Almog "levitates" a superconductor

I thought it'd be nice to archive all the wonderful milestones in technology that scientists have made in the advent of its discovery. :D
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Offline Trinoc

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Re: Official "What Have Carbon Nanotubes Done?" Thread
« Reply #1 on: Jul 08, 2012, 05:56:57 AM »
(Osidius, did you post the right video? That one has no mention of nanotubes.)

Nanotubes are so last year! This year's fashion is graphene:

What is Graphene?


.. and of course nobody remembers buckyballs any more.

Seriously, though, I suggest expanding the remit of this thread to include developments in nanotubes, graphene and buckyballs.
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Re: Official "What Have Carbon Nanotubes Done?" Thread
« Reply #2 on: Jul 08, 2012, 10:50:11 AM »
Not much. They're a pretty overhyped piece of gee wizz technology. They're cool so there must be lots of uses for them!
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