Buckypaper: Unlocking the power of nanotechnology

[blackmist212]

I love nanotechnology

[NefariousBshenkd]

If you made a hat out of Buckypaper, would you call it a...Bucky-Cap?

[Dmanrocks35]

should be fine for fuel cells. Can't see acceptance otherwise unless they can fix the whole asbestos-like health risk issue.

[333xan45]

Not only does it provide a strong material it also lowers fuel economy as the new cars are purcahsed it even gives someone an honest reason to stare at someone's tits. How wonderful ._.

[godofwar007]

this video is garbage. the technology is nowhere near what they are showing

[drboldphd1]

You should say something about how carbon nanotubes enter cells like asbestos.

[Eangeltech]

@drboldphd1 you are missing the point. this isn't a cereal commercial.

[Zigkirby]

@drboldphd1 He totally does, didn't you see at the end where the scientist turns the doctor into nanotubes?

[posturize]

@drboldphd1 I agree, its hard to be completely comfortable or optimistic about carbon nanotubes after learning about how easily they mimic the problems with asbestos

[minieggg1]

@posturize They found that if they change widen the ends of the nanotubes then the cells no longer attack the nanotubes as they are too big to be absorbed by the cells and they no longer have that effect.

[TheOneAndOnlyMichel]

@posturize asbestos once was applauded, too. Look at how many people it destroyed in the long run.

[airman665544]

@drboldphd1 yea but there are many types of nanotubes, and quite a bit (espescially multiwalled) do not have any or as bad effects as single walled nanotubes. Nanotubes are engineered with extreme precision. Now that we know how it badly affects the body, we can engineer NTs so that the mechanism does not occur

[livenow999]

@drboldphd1 CNTs used as shown in these applications do not become airborne and won't enter cells. 1) In the studies that show potential health risks researchers take individual CNTs and place them inside lungs etc. of mice. That doesn't mean they can actually get there. 2) It is very difficult to separate an individual CNT, even from the raw material. Millions of dollars and tons of energy is spent trying to do this. 3) Here they are embedded in resin, etc.. It is not the same as asbestos.

[duhhybrid]

@drboldphd1 oh you mean how they can destroy cancer cells?