Rao and his team tested more conventional straight carbon nanotubes against coil-shaped nanotubes. When a stainless steel ball was dropped onto a single nanotube layer, the coiled nanotubes completely recovered from the impact, while the straight ones did not....

Letters.In the article, the researchers report that the experimental memory devices use an iron nanoparticle--1/50,000 the width of a human hair--that is enclosed in a hollow carbon nanotube. When electricity is applied, the nanoparticle can "shuttle" back...

Colossal Carbon Nanotubes Could Replace Cotton Fibers For High-tech Clothing. research carbon nanotubes. Anyone who has played a first person shooter is familiar with sci-fi suits that provide a gamer's character super-human abilities in one way or another....

material needed to be highly conductive; material for cathodes usually needs to be highly insulating. However, the scientists were able to "coax" the M13 virus--modifying two genes-- into binding with iron phosphate first, and then binding with carbon nanotubes....