‘Sonic Boomlets’ Used to Cut Nanotubes
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Dec. 23, 2010 — For the first time researchers have documented how single-walled carbon nanotubes are cut, a finding that could lead to producing more precise, higher-quality nanotubes. According to the researchers at Brown University and in Korea, such manufacturing improvements likely would make the nanotubes more attractive for use in automotive, biomedicine, electronics, energy, optics and many other fields. High-intensity atomic-level sonic boomlets cause nanotubes to buckle and twist at.....