16-04-06 A finely tuned carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric power generator that captures and uses waste heat, according to researchers at the Energy Departments National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The research cou...

14-01-16 Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nanotube-based coating that greatly reduces the flamma...

12-05-11 A carbon nanotube sponge that can soak up（吸收） oil in water with unparalleled（无比的） efficiency has been developed with help from computational simulations performed at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Carbon n...

10-12-20 A pipefitter knows how to make an exact cut on a metal rod. But it's far harder to imagine getting a precise cut on a carbon nanotube, with a diameter 1/50,000th the thickness of a human hair. In a paper published this month in the British journal P...

10-09-10 For the first time, a team of MIT chemical engineers has observed single ions（离子） marching through a tiny carbon-nanotube channel. Such channels could be used as extremely sensitive detectors or as part of a new water- desalination（脱盐） syste...

10-08-19 NIST will use the new ultra-dark detector, described in a new paper in Nano Letters, to make precision laser power measurements for advanced technologies such as optical communications, laser-based manufacturing, solar energy conversion（能量转换）...