Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - 11:07
in Physics & Chemistry
Carbon nanotubes` potential as a super material is blighted by the fact that when first made they often take the form of an unprepossessing pile of sooty black mess in the bottom of a test tube. Now researchers in the University of Warwick`s Department of Chemistry have found a way of producing carbon nanotubes in which they instantly form a highly sensitive ready made electric circuit.