In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice University have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials ...

A new study details how researchers successfully built and operated a motor using coils woven from pure carbon nanotubes ...

Using ultrafast infrared nanospectroscopic imaging, researchers have been able to directly observe exciton dynamics in carbon ...

Researchers at IBM and the University of Toronto are squeezing light out of molecules. Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough ...

Red light from carbon nanotubes Date: July 14, 2011 Source: Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences Summary: To the human eye, carbon nanotubes usually appear as a black ...

Light touch brightens nanotubes: Scientists find a little ozone goes a long way for fluorescence Date: December 6, 2010 Source: Rice University Summary: ...

Physicists in the US have generated extra-bright beams of infrared light from single-walled carbon nanotubes. The new technique is more efficient than many existing methods for producing light and ...

Gold nanotubes can destroy cancer cells, according to physicists and medical researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Leeds. They found that their nanotubes, which were tuned ...

Organic LEDs, carbon nanotubes may light up future fabrics Researchers find that light-emitting devices can be woven into fabrics. Shalini Saxena – Mar 24, 2015 6:02 pm | 28 ...

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When it comes to having their conduction properties tweaked, carbon nanotubes are bothersome customers. One way to do it is to incorporate a photosensitive dye into the nanotubes' walls.

Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fiber-optic technology.