carbon nanotube

NASA developing carbon nanotube-based material for Stronger and lighter vehicles and Mars habitats

Posted in Science on 21st Feb, 2017
by Alex Muller

Deep space exploration will require new materials.

Carbon nanotubes can move molecules in and out of cell membranes

Posted in Hardware on 11th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

Researchers have been able to make membranes permeable by inserting carbon nanotubes that work like little tunnels.

World's strongest robot muscles made from everyday fishing line

Posted in Hardware on 22nd Feb, 2014
by Alex Muller

For roughly a thousandth the cost of carbon nanotube muscles, fishing line muscle is capable of lifting objects 100 times heavier than natural muscle of the same size.

What Nanotube Computers Mean To Moore's Law

Posted in Science on 26th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

Stanford scientists have built a nanotube computer, an engineering feat that points to continuing advances in computational performance.