nano tubes

A nanotube from the tungsten disulfide compound. The first tubes created by Prof. Tana

The solar tubes

A composite nanomaterial as seen in an electron microscope: carbon nanotubes (thin wires) separated from each other are wrapped around cylindrical crystals of an organic dye. Photo: Boaz Rivchinsky, Weizmann Institute

Just mix and serve

Prof. Rashef Tana, Weizmann Institute

Clean future - new materials for green energy storage

Carbon nanotubes in dedicated imaging. Photo: Purdue University

A label-free imaging tool for monitoring nanotubes

Graphene nano strips. Illustration: Alexandr Talyzin

Graphene nanoribbons inside carbon nanotubes

AT Professor Charlie Johnson who led the research

Researchers have succeeded in attaching odor receptors to nanotubes

Gold coated carbon nanotube. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Draw me a nanotube

Rice University researchers from left: Avishek Saha, Prof. Angel Marti and Disha Jain

Dissolving nanotubes in water

Color rendering of a scanning electron microscope image of a programmable nanoprocessor superimposed on a schematic architecture of a nanoprocessor circuit

The first ever functional nanoprocessor

Image a is an atomic force microscope (AFM) image of a polymer sheet whose dark spots are organic nanotubes. b is a transmission electron microscope (TEM) image of a sheet with sub-nanometer channels where the organic nanotubes are circled in red. On the right - magnification of a single nanotube. Photo: Ting Xu

Molecular polymer membranes

Honey - viscous but not flexible

Earplugs (or tires) in space

Carbon nanotubes

Energy storage in carbon nanotubes

An array of nanotubes glued onto a surface. Image: Rice University

An innovative process for the production of nanowires

Carbon nanotubes. Source: Wikimedia Commons

The effects of hydrogen gas on the preparation of carbon nanotubes

This filament, which contains about 30 million carbon nanotubes, absorbs photon energy from the sun and then emits it as less energetic photons.

An innovative antenna for receiving energy from the sun

The Jacquard loom on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester was one of the first devices that could be programmed.

The next twenty years of microchips

Papilloma virus - HPV

Carbon nanotube sensors for protein detection

Nanotube-injected tiny devices with forests of carbon nanotubes growing in the pores can be used as filters or as carriers for improved catalysts. Photo: Rice University

Nanotechnology filters

Carbon nanotubes. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Defects in the crystal are important for creating hollow nanotubes

A nanometer ball. Photo: McGill University

Innovative DNA nanotechnology in medicine

An array of nanotubes glued onto a surface. Image: Rice University

An innovative method for embedding nanotubes on surfaces

Nanotubes are made of boron nitride. Image: Michigan Tech

Boron nitride nanotubes

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Nanotubes for weighing atoms

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Carbon nanotubes are better than metals for electronics

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Biological acids help to produce carbon nanotubes

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Using carbon nanotubes to transport compounds

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

serpentine

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Nanobombs to fight cancer/Galileo