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A new class of carbon nanotubes could be the next-generation clean-up crew for toxic sludge and contaminated water, say researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
Enhanced single-walled carbon nanotubes offer a more effective and sustainable approach to water treatment and remediation than the standard industry materials—silicon gels and activated carbon—according to a paper published in the March issue of Environmental Science Water: Research and Technology.
RIT researchers John-David Rocha and Reginald Rogers, authors of the study, demonstrate the potential of this emerging technology to clean polluted water. Their work applies carbon nanotubes to environmental problems in a specific new way that builds on a[sic] nearly two decades of nanomaterial research. Nanotubes are more commonly associated with fuel-cell research.
"This aspect is new—taking knowledge of carbon nanotubes and their properties and realizing, with new processing and characterization techniques, the advantages nanotubes can provide for removing contaminants for water," said Rocha, assistant professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science in RIT's College of Science.
Rocha and Rogers are advancing nanotube technology for environmental remediation and water filtration for home use.
"We have shown that we can regenerate these materials," said Rogers, assistant professor of chemical engineering in RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering. "In the future, when your water filter finally gets saturated, put it in the microwave for about five minutes and the impurities will get evaporated off."
Journal Article: John-David R. Rocha et al. Emerging investigators series: highly effective adsorption of organic aromatic molecules from aqueous environments by electronically sorted single-walled carbon nanotubes, Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol. (2017). DOI: 10.1039/C6EW00284F
(Score: 4, Touché) by linkdude64 on Friday March 31 2017, @03:36PM (2 children)
God forbid a carbon nanotube-based "supercharging" battery is semi-invented/hypothesized; we will never hear the fucking end of it.
WIRED magazine staff would jump out of their office windows for having attained "Tech reporting" apotheosis and ceasing to have purpose.
The largest manufacturing industries in the world and all of their employees would voluntarily begin using their own blood as lubricant and electrolyte to speed their re-tooling.
The batteries would, according to Phys.org's psychically-distributed Final Manifesto, as it was shrieked into the Ether by their possessed chorus of Flayed Editors, "Have the dimensions of a human hair, yet contain enough power for you to post 8,999 selfies on Instabookchat without having to lug around that portable battery charger everywhere."
And as the Final Priest lifted His anointed PCB shard to the neck of the last flip-phone user chained to the Kickstarter-funded 3D-printed Wirelessly-Charging Altar, it was whispered to Him, "The University responsible for the discovery has stated the manufacturing processes to attain this battery are very complex and may reach commercialization only within the next 20 years."
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Friday March 31 2017, @04:25PM (1 child)
Like these?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-nanotubes-boost-power-of-lithium-battery/ [scientificamerican.com]
https://phys.org/news/2013-08-battery-boost-aligned-carbon-nanotubes.html [phys.org]
/article.pl?sid=14/06/11/2315249 [soylentnews.org]
/article.pl?sid=14/05/12/1438224 [soylentnews.org] (not exactly a battery but it has both graphene and CNTs)
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday April 01 2017, @12:06PM
This is the end!!!!