Video of the week: Rice chemists give helping hand to carbon nanotubes

This week’s video comes from Texas where a new hands-on technique is being used to produce carbon nanotubes.

Carbon nanotubes have a range of desirable properties, including very high tensile strength, plus high elasticity and flexibility.

Here, Rice chemists – including lead researcher Matteo Pasquali – describe how they are taking a low-tech approach to produce short lengths of strong, conductive fibres from bulk nanotubes in about an hour. The research is published in Advanced Materials.

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