Tiny bubbles snap carbon nanotubes like twigs
Monday, July 9, 2012 - 13:30
in Physics & Chemistry
What's 100 times stronger than steel, weighs one-sixth as much and can be snapped like a twig by a tiny air bubble? The answer is a carbon nanotube -- and a new study by Rice University scientists details exactly how the much-studied nanomaterials snap when subjected to ultrasonic vibrations in a liquid.