Nanoseries 1/5: What is a carbon nanotube?

[greekfitercod4ever]

how many nanotubes have we produced so far?

[nano2hybrids]

@greekfitercod4ever In the world? they are being produced by tons now.... a mol is 6.023* 10^24 ....SHIT LOTS

[greekfitercod4ever]

@nano2hybrids in stp conditions

[jnthncr]

Will it blend? That's the question

[MaxAirCat]

0.000000001 is not small

[nano2hybrids]

@MaxAirCat that depends, are you an atom?

[MOARKRABS100]

the hardest material know to man haas many applications we just dont use it to its full potential yet...

[Darkkenfox]

I cannot understand what you are saying. Where is your accent from?

[jonjonjonmw3]

A talking female nanotube... with a man's voice.

You really didn't see anything wrong with this? lol

[cativegan]

@jonjonjonmw3 exactly what I was thinking. not only a female CNT talking but the whole video was clearly made by women and then there's a male voice-off... blah.

[cativegan]

@jonjonjonmw3 no, wait I get it! This video is so gender bending that it is supposed to challenge your previous gender notions. So you see a nanotube with lipstick on and long eyelashes and get confused with the male voice... It's a tranvestite you prejudiced prick! (sorry for the name calling I'm just making a point nothing personal mate, big hug!)

[jonjonjonmw3]

@cativegan Well, in that case, that's one sexy transvestite.

Just look at those curves!

[MarcLira66]

@jonjonjonmw3 I think this series was made in Spanish originally and the voice was of a female. In one video of his; he mentions the work of bonding gold and nanotubes for gas detectors (I think) was being made in Spain.

[TerragorDragon]

Me and a friend were discussing if, because of the fact of its super hydrophobic properties, if it would be useful in boat technology, to repel the water, having possibly less water resistance, therefore the boat that has a bottom either made of or coated in the carbon fiber, might use less power to achieve a higher velocity.

[nano2hybrids]

@TerragorDragon I never thought about it but I don't see why it won't work! Good thought :) Time to start your company 'coating boats' :P

Irene

[felderup]

@TerragorDragon there's many ways to reduce resistance, it's been found in golfball research, that dimples make resistance lower, by using trapped turbulent air as the layer in contact with the exterior air. maybe someone can experiment, but i'm thinking it'd slow the boat down. another option, is to inject air bubbles under the boat.

[cjlennon]

@felderup hovercraft anyone?

[felderup]

@cjlennon dunno about the triple post, oops, but... a hovercraft with large skirt loading makes a dimple in the water, getting up out of it is one of the problems for low power craft, but, yes, hovercraft would partly do the job. how about surface effect, winglets on the side of the boat to lift up, scoops to force water under the hull, should work well at high speed, low altitude.

[felderup]

@TerragorDragon there's many ways to reduce resistance, it's been found in golfball research, that dimples make resistance lower, by using trapped turbulent air as the layer in contact with the exterior air. maybe someone can experiment, but i'm thinking it'd slow the boat down. another option, is to inject air bubbles under the boat.

[kvjnr5348dcewi]

you ruin the game prick

[DeusMalleus]

How do you make CNT's? Like... at home?

[nano2hybrids]

@DeusMalleus, not easy! You can make tiny amounts (probably) if you burn a sooty candle and stick a plate above it - in the soot on the base of the plate if you're lucky there may be a few fullerenes and nanotubes amongst the sooty carbon (but hardly any). To do it properly, you need to grind up graphite and tiny particles of iron or nickel, press it into a rod shape, get a second rod of graphite, stick them with their tips very close together, stick the whole lot in a container and pump out..

[nano2hybrids]

... all the air. Then connect the two rods to a large battery so you get an electric spark between them, run this for a few minutes and everything inside your container will get covered in soot. Then if you open it up and look near to the ends of the rods you should find some 'spider web' type regions in the black carbon deposits, and that's your nanotubes (but don't do this at home, you need proper masks and gloves!).

[4jeremy9]

drink'n my cola from a nano straw right now!

[fridofridolin]

Nice, but.. How about making closed captioning?

[nano2hybrids]

You mean for the audio? That is a lot of work :/

Irene

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