How to Use nanotube in a Sentence
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Each nanotube is only a few atoms across and about as long as a strand of hair is wide.
—Max G. Levy, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
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And those metallic nanotubes still lurking in all of this?
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2019
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Strebe, an artist-in-residence at M.I.T., proposed the idea in 2016 to her colleagues, who then got to work on the nanotubes.
—Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
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The membrane of film plus nanotube worked well, but wasn't practical in 2013.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
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In tallying the time each task took, the researchers found that in VR, threading the nanotube and tying the knot went much quicker.
—Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 3 July 2018
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The research largely focused on controlling the growth of the nanotubes.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
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To do this, the researchers added carbon nanotubes, which are conductors, to the mixture.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2018
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Vantablack is made from carbon nanotubes, which are tiny carbon cylinders with walls as thin as one atom.
—Sophie.erickson, The Verge, 20 Aug. 2019
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The thin, flexible cylinders of carbon known as carbon nanotubes might fit the bill.
—Colin Stuart, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
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These discs line up along the carbon nanotube, which has pores that electrons from the reaction center can pass through.
—Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2010
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How did the tunneling nanotubes go unnoticed for such a long time?
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Apr. 2018
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In the previous, 1 nanometer device, the gate was made of a single carbon nanotube.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
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To make these threads, the researchers first grew curly carbon nanotubes that stick out from the silicon carbide surface like ringlets of hair.
—Prachi Patel, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
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To make these threads, the researchers first grew curly carbon nanotubes that stick out from the silicon carbide surface like ringlets of hair.
—Prachi Patel, Scientific American, 26 June 2017
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And there have been some notable successes, such as a 1 nanometer gate made of a single carbon nanotube.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
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Carbon nanotubes were first developed more than a decade ago at MIT, earning their creators a Nobel prize along the way.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2017
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For the finalists, those products range from concrete to carbon nanotubes.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2018
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McGinnis explains that ethanol's carbons have an affinity for the inside of the carbon nanotubes.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2019
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For, like Dr Wardle’s nanotubes, diamonds are made of carbon.
—The Economist, 5 Oct. 2019
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Adding the antibody coating means that more cancer cells, rather than healthy cells, will take in the nanotubes, in turn making the nanotubes less likely to damage healthy tissue.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Apr. 2023
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Their bonds are only 0.1 to 0.3 nanometers long, so the research team used transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to observe the atoms caught in a carbon nanotube.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
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Scientists have captured video of a pair of rhenium atoms breaking apart and bonding again in a carbon nanotube.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
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Carbon nanotubes have more tensile strength than steel, which would not be up to such an intense task, though they haven't been constructed or tested at such a mammoth scale.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Sep. 2018
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So the pair, along with Rice grad students including Doiron, worked to capture those emissions with wafer-scale films of closely packed carbon nanotubes.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2019
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Built with carbon nanotubes, this coating will transfer heat from electric elements to the wing surfaces.
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2017
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The efficiency of each depends on the final height, density and distribution of the nanotube forests.
—Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2021
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So far, scientists have only produced carbon nanotubes a few inches long and one nanometer wide.
—Rachel Feltman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2013
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The nanotubes are 1 nanometer in diameter — far thinner than a human hair — and are injected 24 hours before surgery.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
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Smalley gave Curley two vials of carbon nanotubes, a kind of nanoparticle that is hollow, with a cylinder structure.
—Erika Hayasaki, Newsweek, 21 July 2015
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One square centimeter of Vantablack consists of about one billion carbon nanotubes spaced perfectly apart.
—Temujin Doran and Katy Scott, CNN, 11 Feb. 2018
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