carbon nanotube microwave explosion

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[mike300494]

actually i think that is a micro-chip??

[phojati]

no it's not, its a polyethylene terphetalate film coated by carbon nanotubes

[sebas0608459]

@mrpejman Ok you are right, I'm not an expert on what gets heated up by microwaves, so I'm sorry to have had rash conclusions. So do you think the substrate heated up because of the CNTs or because of the metal catalysts that had been deposited?

[mrpejman]

@xenotran33: CVD

[mrpejman]

@sebas0608459: it's not for proving any thing, this video was part of a series of experiments, but due to intellectual property issues we removed the more scientific ones.

if you think PET by it self does this, you can try a piece of a PET bottle and put it in a microwave oven and see what happens. in fact after this experiment the PET substrate was still there with no burn marks or

melting.

[sebas0608459]

The reason it heats up so quickly is not because of the CNTs, but because of the polyethylene terephtalate. I don't know what you are trying to prove with this video, but my guess is the same thing would happen if you would just put in an uncoated film in the oven...

[xenotran33]

how did you create the carbon nanotubes?



[quangluu96]

σ_σ

[903harman]

spff.. a million is nothing i'd say trillion x99 nano-bomb!

[1BustedMyth]

Poor microwave, do they ever cop some abuse these days, people seem to like to stick everything in there!

Seriously, be carefull, I love nanotech, but its early days.

I worked with composites, they found later that this material when cut became airborn as tiny needle like pieces that could be inhaled. A very good friend of mine is extremly ill with asbestosis, he thort it was perfectly safe when he worked with it!, it takes many years to fully understand a material.

[DoesntUpload]

I'm doing some semi serious research on them and its not proven that CNTs can even get into the part of the lungs where asbestos causes problem. All the lab tests I have looked at have been with simply adding CNTs directly into the cells.

However, it is better to be safe than sorry, some precautions would be good untill it is firmly proven or otherwise.

[quixotic86]

Considering CNTs are starting to be seen as possibly toxic and carcinogenic (asbestos like structure, tests on mice and zebra fish) I'm hoping you were taking some precautions...