Carbon Nanotubes

[2b3the1]

I <3 fullerenes.

[Givarius]

It's the new age Asbestos

[YUTOOBJUNKE]

they say thies NANOTUBES will give us the ability to make ropes from the suface to space. nomore rockets.

[guyontheend]

"the n00b generation of electronic devices?"

[southernclassik]

i get it.

[cyxgun]

This stuff is supposed to be like asbestos if you breath it in though. Worse, actually since it's so tiny it can pass through even the finest air filters as if they weren't there.

[SGTSnakeUSMC]

Agree with Cyxgun. The jets I worked on in the USMC were made of special carbon fiber composites. Makes for a much lighter aircraft that is strong as steal! Climbing around on them, we would often get tiny carbon slivers in our skin. Felt itchy like fiberglass insulation, but to make it worse; your body doesn't reject carbon. So, the sliver either stays in you or works it way through to the other side. With that in mind, I think that touching or breathing carbon nanotubes would be a bad idea!

[sunilanandatheertha]

ultra high frequency sonication is one of the methods used to disperse them. But again, it all depends on the type of matrix material being used. ;)

[Prabu1863]

Can anybody advise me How to disperse them

[TheWater911]

They have been talking a lot about it replacing gold.

[SSrb1099]

Would it replace gold as a conductor of electricity>

[zezima48]

cant they make it any bigger?

[ObamaIsTheNewHitler]

they can weave it

[sacredlyprofane1]

It's not that easy. Right now, we can only get them up to around 15 millimeters long.

[blueboi05]

LMAO

[Alexvideoclip]

I want work with you.

I know how to change a light bulb.

[DoctorWhatSeries]

got to love the english

[hamzeeco]

you absolutely have to

[ic300x]

is there such thing as a scope

that can SEE atoms?

if some got any pic/video links?

[dimensionless99]

kind of... we have atomic force microscopes which "feel" the atoms more than they "see" them, but basically allow to visualize a pattern of atoms on a more or less flat surface. Just type atomic force microscope in google images, you'll see how it works.

[Amishman35]

I'd like to have an AFM carbon nanotube phonograph that records all the radio stations from the air at once (30hz - 108 Mhz) and stores one hour of it on a metal plate the size of an LP record.

[clauzii]

I love when scientists acts like this one. Big smile, "LOVE what I do!"

[samandeana]

a nanometre is 80'000 times smaller than a human hair

[shahainhigh]

Actually it is 100'000 times smaller than a human hair

[t4kne]

Since it's man made, it is what you make it to be.

[spartanhvy09]

purple drank

[JoshuaG97]

actually according to wikipedia its 50,000

[Ultra0wnage]

wikipedia fails

[iShaddad]

yes its 50,000 times smaller, according to what I've learnt in school yesterday hehe

[OghamTheBold]

But is it narrower than a cat's whisker?

[nurbsenvi]

AliG does youtube.

[asentju]

I have worked with AFM and carbon nanotubes for more than one year in Tianjin university China. I dare say they are amazing though sometimes made me feel boring.

[Buggascope]

I want one for my phonograph needle!

[johnnyb831]

LOL

[ondalolol]

I love this field of knowledge and would love to work in but I'm still in the 1sf year of Biomedical Engineering.

What can I do to get in this field as fast as I can. I want to work on this!

[WarwickICAST]

You might like to have a listen to a podcast we did with Professor David Smith from York Uni on nanotech in medicine - check out Warwick Podcasts on the University of Warwick website. Worth a listen if you want to see about working with nano science in biomedicine.

[darlantro]

look around at your school and nearby universities for nanotech researchers. many new facilities are and departments are coming along, often at traditionally engineering-focused universities. Purdue University in the middle of the US (Indiana) for example has a very large, brand new facility.

[ondalolol]

Thanks for the answers. I have listen the podcast of Professor David Smith, interesting podcast.

Thanks for the help "darlantro", but I not in US by now. I study in Portugal,in the other side of the ocean, indeed I talked about my fascination for nanotechnology and specially nanomedicine with some researchers in nanotech (in my University) and got more information. Anyway, thanks a lot.

[Freenex]

This field is very easy to get into if you major in Electrical Engineering, or Chemistry.

[shahainhigh]

my major is materials science and my dissretation is about synthsis of carbon nanotubes

[CamiloSanchez1979]

if anyone that really know about nanotechnology please let me know where i can learn and see more about ntech.thanks

[jonathanwilliamray]

the announcer is horrid