Scientists at rice university have developed a way to make carbon nanotubes self-assemble in a dish using a powerful Tesla coil transformer circuit. Similar to graphene, carbon nanotubes are considered “supermaterials” with many potential applications but they have yet to be implemented on a wide scale. This new development will allow scientists to build circuits without actually touching them, marking a major step forward for potential uses of the material.
-blam!- yeah. Science.
[spoiler]the video is about 3 min. Worth watching.[/spoiler]
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1 ReplyI wonder what the actual extent of the usefulness of this method of construction is. Like, could it be used to make really complex circuits even within a small space, or is this going to end up being more of a theoretical finding? I imagine fine-tuning the method will be brutal.