{"id":422379,"date":"2010-03-12T22:02:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T02:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2010-03-12T22:02:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T02:02:04","slug":"carbon-nanotube-audio-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/422379","title":{"rendered":"Carbon nanotube audio speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news187524998.html\" >Lightweight, very thin and wireless<\/a> when triggered with laser light. One interesting\u00a0practical\u00a0application is affixing a nanotube speaker to a surface rendering the entire surface acoustically active.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The study confirms earlier research that carbon nanotubes that are stretched into sheets and electrically powered can produce intense\u00a0<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/tags\/sound\/\">sound<\/a>, but researchers at UT Dallas\u2019 Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute have made some important advancements.<\/p>\n<p>Although prior studies demonstrated that sheets of carbon nanotubes can produce sound when heated with alternating electrical current, the UT Dallas researchers have found that striking tones can be generated by vertical arrays of nanotubes, called forests, which resemble black velvet.<\/p>\n<p>The team also discovered that high-quality sound can be generated when nanotube sheets or forests are struck with\u00a0<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/tags\/laser+light\/\">laser light<\/a> that is modulated, or \u201caltered,\u201d in the acoustic frequency range.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In addition to filling a room with sound from invisible speakers, nanotube speakers could easily cancel sound from the noisiest neighbor or dim the roar of traffic rushing past a neighborhood, using the same principles as current sound-canceling technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sound generation by nanotube sheets can help to achieve this effect on very large scales,\u201d Kozlov said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7051\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7051\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7051\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7051\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7051\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7051\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7051\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7051\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7051\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7051\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=7051&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightweight, very thin and wireless when triggered with laser light. One interesting\u00a0practical\u00a0application is affixing a nanotube speaker to a surface rendering the entire surface acoustically active. From the link: The study confirms earlier research that carbon nanotubes that are stretched into sheets and electrically powered can produce intense\u00a0sound, but researchers at UT Dallas\u2019 Alan G. 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