Carbon nanotubes

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A combination of wax and coiling makes carbon nanotube muscles stronger than ever. Science/AAAS

Power to you: carbon nanotube muscles are going strong

By Geoff Spinks

Just on a year ago my colleagues and I announced our discovery that carbon nanotube yarns could be made to twist and rotate at great speeds when electrically stimulated. In this way we had created “artificial…
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A week is a long time to be stuck in a lift. MGM

Going up! The elevator that could take you into space

By Amanda Ellis, Flinders University

A major Japanese construction company, Obayashi Corporation, has announced plans to build a space elevator within 40 years, allowing people to be transported to space stations above the earth. The proposed…

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New uses for carbon nanotubes

University of California, Riverside

University of California, Riverside, scientists have added ionic liquid to single-walled carbon nanotubes and modified the…

New sponge to clean up oil spills

Rice University

A new type of carbon nanotube sponge can absorb over 100 times its weight in oil making it perfect for cleaning up oil spills…

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