Microphase Carbon Nanotubes : DigInfo

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Traditionally electrical charges are carried and sometimes shielded using metal but this isn't ideal- especially if the current has to run past or through explosive material like petrol tanks. The solution: Carbon Nanotubes. Microphase have mixed polymers (extracted from biomass) with their nanotubes and produced stronger, safer, and more electrically conductive materials then their metallic equivalent. According to Microphase, some of the most recent Boeing aircrafts employ this technology.

Here Microphase is demonstrating carbon nanotube production:

"This is a substrate cataylst theres a heater there and a substrate is place on top of the heater and usually there is a biomass material like ethanol on the plate and then we'll make a vacuum in the tube- we'll amke this tube in a vacuum . You can see how its becoming vacuumed so when vacuum takes place ethanol evaporates its usually an electrical device beside the desktop synthetic? and once the heater is heated up at 700 degress celcius the ethanol is decomposed and the decomposed ethanol reacts with the catalyst and forms a hot carbon nanotubes and 5 or 10 minutes later this black carbon nanotube is formed and the process is finished."

The whole process takes about 20 minutes.

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[Omega231984]

the first step into getting smart is getting curious

[jannevellamo]

Well, you could always build a giant robot out of nanotube composites, arm it with a couple of railguns, an antimatter projector, a gravitational disruptor, a rotoblastuloidal devastator cannon, neurocortical AI targeting, a plasma shield, fusion engines and a pink bikini. That should do the trick. Why the bikini? Maybe I'm kinky. Or it's a distraction. " WTF! A giant robot in pink swimwear?" And then it's too late...

[Technoblood]

What's the catalyst?

[Wond3rballs]

this shit costs alot. an engine won't make up for the price of the wire through the energy savings over the course of its life.

[ShriveledTadpole]

one step closer to room temperature superconductivity?

[warweed420]

GODZIRAAH!!!!!!!

[Kiroley]

Looks good. I imagine household appliances will be an item high on the

lets put the nanotubes in this" list

[BesttBi]

Is anyone else too stupid for this video? .. I know I am.

[MasterTxJ]

use this in electrical engines instead of copper wires for higher efficiency.

[t4kne]

So how would these work against an attack by Godzilla?