Spidey Would Drool Over This Carbon Nanotube + Spider Silk Combo
We’ve been so busy following the latest graphene news that we almost forgot all about our two our other fave … [continued]
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Cheap Substitute For Silicon Grows From Carbon Nanotube “Seeds”
While we’ve been busy touting graphene as the “miracle material of the new millennium,” there’s another advanced materials kid on … [continued]
Plasma-treated, Carbon-nanotube Filters For Water Purification In Developing Countries
Plasma-treated carbon nanotubes can function very effectively as an inexpensive means of purifying water in developing countries, according to new … [continued]
Elusive Silicon Battery Not So Elusive, Thanks To Carbon Nanotubes
Silicon could provide lithium-ion batteries with ten times their typical storage capacity, but this ubiquitous semiconductor is notoriously fragile when … [continued]
Unzip A Carbon Nanotube, Find A Graphene Ribbon, Create A “Flexible” Li-Ion Battery
In what sounds like a solution in search of a problem, a few years ago researchers at Rice University figured … [continued]
Silicon Nano Beads Could Improve Li-ion Battery Life
Researchers at the University of Maryland NanoCentre have developed yet another silicon-based lithium-ion battery technology which they say could be … [continued]
Graphene Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Created, A Seamless 3-D Material For Energy Storage & Electronics
Researchers from Rice University have created a ‘seamless’ graphene and nanotube hybrid. The material is probably the best electrode … [continued]
New Battery Research: Double-Walled Nanotubes Improve Durability and Lifetime
For more than a decade, scientists have tried to improve lithium-based batteries by replacing the graphite in one terminal with … [continued]
Boron Gets a Clean Energy Makeover
Though boron is better known for the making of bleach, as a sort of metalloid cousin to silicon it also … [continued]
Carbon Nanotubes Improve, Cut Cost of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Coincidentally, or not, researchers at Rice University and Tsinghua University have come to essentially the same conclusion as researchers … [continued]
