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Now that we have invented the carbon nanotube chickenwire [link]...
Molecular biologists should start working on phase II.
Carbon Chickenwire
http://www.business...n_id=rss_topStories
[ShawnBob, Apr 22 2010]
(?) Carbon Nanotubes
http://homepage.sns...tube-horizontal.jpg
[ShawnBob, Apr 22 2010]
[link]
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Ah say, ah say you're built too low boy! The fast ones go over your head. |
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That's just graphene. However, you maybe could make a bird-shaped molecule. |
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You could start with Carbon Nano Nuggets. |
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this is *all* over my head... |
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What came first - the Carbon NanoChicken or the Carbon NanoEgg? |
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To clarify [nineteenthly]'s point, and just to keep terminology clear, this is graphene, not nanotubes. Graphene has been known a lot longer, and sheets of it make up the reinforcement in carbon fiber materials. It's strong and light relative to, say steel, but still doesn't begin to approach the strength of true carbon nano-tubes. |
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Why did the Carbon NanoChicken cross the road ? |
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How many nanochickens do you need to drive a mecha-elephant? |
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Rolled up flakes of graphene are virtually
indistinguishable from multi-walled carbon
nanotubes. |
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Which is why, for the highest possible tensile strength, you want single walled nanotubes. |
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Graphene also has a lower youngs modulus owing to the assymetry of the rolls. |
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I use steel-belted radials, myself. |
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They're delocalised-orbital-lickingly good! |
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"You want fries with that ?" |
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Nanotubes are really just the same chicken-wire rolled into a straw. |
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Perfect little cages for the nano-chickens.
Carbon nanocoupes. |
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I wonder if/when someone will invent nano-barbed
wire? |
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