{"id":400477,"date":"2010-03-07T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2010-03-07T16:04:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:04:21","slug":"carbon-nanotubes-open-new-area-of-energy-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/400477","title":{"rendered":"Carbon nanotubes open new area of energy research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nanotechnology is revolutionizing how we see and deal with\u00a0electricity<\/a>, everything\u00a0from storage<\/a> to wiring<\/a>. Now a team at MIT has discovered carbon nanotubes produce electricity in an entirely new way<\/a>, opening a brand new area in energy research.<\/p>\n

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A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. The discovery could lead to a new way of producing electricity, the researchers say.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The phenomenon, described as thermopower waves, \u201copens up a new area of energy research, which is rare,\u201d says Michael Strano, MIT\u2019s Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, who was the senior author of a paper describing the new findings that appeared in\u00a0Nature Materials<\/a><\/em> on March 7. The lead author was Wonjoon Choi, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n

Like a collection of flotsam propelled along the surface by waves traveling across the ocean, it turns out that a thermal wave \u2014 a moving pulse of heat \u2014 traveling along a microscopic wire can drive electrons along, creating an electrical current.<\/p>\n

The key ingredient in the recipe is carbon nanotubes \u2014 submicroscopic hollow tubes made of a chicken-wire-like lattice of carbon atoms. These tubes, just a few billionths of a meter (nanometers<\/a>) in diameter, are part of a family of novel carbon molecules, including buckyballs and graphene sheets, that have been the subject of intensive worldwide research over the last two decades.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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