Three RIKEN physicists have discovered how tiny tubes of carbon spit out light that is more energetic than the light shone on ...

Materials with large specific surface areas include porous silica and activated carbon ... This development is a result of the "Nanotechnology Program: Carbon Nanotube Capacitor Development Program," ...

This discovery demonstrates immediate practical value. The team used the plasma to purify carbon nanotube samples, achieving in one minute what conventional plasma cleaning requires an hour to ...