A team of scientists from Japan's RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics have revealed how carbon nanotubes emit more energetic light than the light they absorb. Since materials typically emit less ...

Nanotubes can serve as biosensors. They change their fluorescence when they bind to certain molecules. Until now, it was unclear why. Researchers have gained new insights into the cause of the ...

New research offers a groovy answer to the question of what causes carbon nanotubes to align in ultrathin crystalline films. Ultrathin carbon nanotubes crystals could have wonderous uses, like ...

Boron-nitride nanotubes can template the growth of TMD nanotubes both inside and outside the tube. These can be directly observed by transmission electron microscopy (right). Tokyo, Japan – ...

There's an old Monty Python gag about a man who inherits 122,000 miles of string and wants to cash in. Unfortunately, the string comes in 3-inch lengths, rendering it useless. A similar hitch has ...

They're soft, strong, and very, very long. Large, transparent sheets of carbon nanotubes can now be produced at lightning speed. The new technique should allow the nanotubes to be used in commercial ...

Apart from some good examples, such as SVolt, the battery industry is a black box. Any improvement is protected not only by patents but also by silence about what makes it relevant. Take carbon ...

What if we could capture the carbon dioxide that power plants put into the air and make it something useful? East Tennessee startup SkyNano is trying to make that possible. The company has produced ...

A new study details how researchers successfully built and operated a motor using coils woven from pure carbon nanotubes instead of the heavy copper that has been the standard for a century. But can ...

In a study published in Nano Letters, Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers created the first tungsten disulfide nanotubes that point in the same direction upon formation. The team’s new synthesis ...

Heat is something of a nuisance for electrical engineers. It reduces the reliability of electronic devices and even causes them to fail completely. That’s why computer components are liberally smeared ...