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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday May 16 2018, @03:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the play-dough-improvement dept.

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EVANSTON - Northwestern University’s Jiaxing Huang is ready to reignite carbon nanotube research. And he’s doing so with a common chemical that was once used in household cleaners.

By using an inexpensive, already mass produced, simple solvent called cresol, Huang has discovered a way to make disperse carbon nanotubes at unprecedentedly high concentrations without the need for additives or harsh chemical reactions to modify the nanotubes. In a surprising twist, Huang also found that as the nanotubes’ concentrations increase, the material transitions from a dilute dispersion to a thick paste, then a free-standing gel and finally a kneadable dough that can be shaped and molded.

The study was published online on May 14 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2018/may/making-carbon-nanotubes-as-usable-as-common-plastics/ AND http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800298115

Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180515162801.htm


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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday May 16 2018, @04:44PM (3 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday May 16 2018, @04:44PM (#680440) Homepage Journal

    LOL: Aphasia

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    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:00PM (2 children)

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:00PM (#680450) Homepage Journal

      "That's good news!"

      I'm waiting for the Triage Nurse. She'll set me right up as Aphasia is a symptom of Stroke. That was St. Vincent's working hypothesis a couple weeks ago.

      Aphasia is a very common symptom of many different neurological disorders. My first experience of it was in May 2010: I wrote a lengthy essay with perfect spelling and punctuation that didn't
      make even a little tiny bit of grammatical sense when I tried to read it a couple days later.

      This shit gets old sometimes. It really fscking does.

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      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:45PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:45PM (#680463)

        Good thing you seem to live somewhere somewhat civilised. Around here, present with aphasia, and they'll lock you up on suspicion of devil worship drugs. They don't take kindly to dork who can't get laid who use fancy words like "aphasia" to talk about their consort with satan. Because their god is kind and good, they'll strap you in an electric chair for your own good and fry your brain until aphasia is the least of your problems and the devil has left you.

        Best part is if it doesn't work and you come back complaining of symptoms of consorting with satan again, it's not that the electroshock didn't work, it's that your soul is hell bound because you refuse to PRAISE MAN JESUS!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @04:55PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @04:55PM (#680446)

    He is not making carbon nanotubes, as the summary implies; he found out that they easily dissolve in cresol. This is not going to make them "as usable as common plastics". You can shape into forms, but the resulting products will not have any more strength than hardtack bread, since the nanotubes will not bond with each other in any way.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @12:55AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @12:55AM (#680577)

    Breaking news, carbon nanotubes bag found in the bottom of Mariana Trench.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @08:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @08:02PM (#680864)

      my thoughts exactly. we're killing animals and people with plastic (iow, we're too stupid to handle plastic like grown ups) and we want to replace it with something much more difficult to clean up after? like nanotubes in our water to compliment the pharmaceuticals? oh lordy!

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