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🌡️ Breakthrough carbon nanotube material sets new thermal insulation record

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-breakthrough-carbon-nanotube-material-thermal.html

#materials #heat #thermal #insulation #carbon #technology #nanotechnology #nanotube

Breakthrough carbon nanotube material sets new thermal insulation record

Chinese researchers have developed a new carbon nanotube insulator that can withstand high temperatures up to 2,600°C, outperforming all other materials used for extreme-temperature applications. This breakthrough could be used for heat shields on hypersonic vehicles and spacecraft during re-entry into the atmosphere and in other high-temperature environments.

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John Vaccaro (johniac)Mar 31, 2025

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 31st, 2025

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#neuromorphic #co-evolve #decoding #hardware-efficient #adipose #skin #regenerating #bioink #nanotube #NiPc-OCH3 #carbon #capture ##Vulgate #Merlin #romances #artefact #INSTAAR #Sublimation #Isotopes #drone

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 31st, 2025

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. Vol II No 81 349 links Curated Memristor-based brain-compu...

Ele Willoughby, PhD Jan 5, 2025

I still haven’t had much chance to carve this year, or catch up with the #PrinterSolstice prompts, so until I can, here’s a carbon-themed print from my portfolio: Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017). She was a professor of physics and electrical engineering at MIT, known as the Queen of Carbon Science.
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#linocut #printmaking #engineering #physics #carbon #nanotube #buckyball #womenInSTEM #histsci #MastoArt

Ele Willoughby, PhD Nov 11, 2024

Happy birthday to Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017). She was a professor of physics and electrical engineering at MIT, known as the Queen of Carbon Science.

In this linocut I've shown her in front of a carbon nanotube. She was recognized for her work on graphite, graphite intercalation compounds, fullerenes (a form of carbon known as buckyballs, 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #engineering #physics #carbon #nanotube #buckyball #womenInSTEM #histsci #MastoArt

Spaceflight 🚀Apr 1, 2024

#Carbon #nanotube use in lightweight, high-performance armor materials, for example, in shields 🛡️ around #spacecraft to mitigate damage from flying high-speed #microdebris. "By adding Kevlar nanofibers, we were able to achieve nearly 100% 📈 improvement in energy dissipation performance at certain supersonic impact 💥 velocities" https://news.wisc.edu/new-lightweight-super-material-could-battle-bullets-deflect-space-debris/

#SpaceDebris

New lightweight super material could battle bullets, deflect space debris

The carbon nanotube could be used in lightweight, high-performance armor materials, for example, in bulletproof vests to better protect the wearer or in shields around spacecraft to mitigate damage from flying high-speed microdebris.

The EMBO Journal Nov 27, 2023

Tunnelling #nanotube formation is driven by #Eps8/#IRSp53-dependent linear #actin polymerization
Michael Henderson, Chiara Zurzolo, Patricia Bassereau and coworkers
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2023113761

Ele Willoughby, PhD Nov 11, 2023

Happy birthday to Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017). She was a professor of physics and electrical engineering at MIT, known as the Queen of Carbon Science.

In this linocut I've shown her in front of a carbon nanotube. She was recognized for her work on graphite, graphite intercalation compounds, … 1/n

#linocut #printmaking #engineering #physics #carbon #nanotube #buckyball #womenInSTEM #histsci #MastoArt

RTN Mar 28, 2023

".. vermutet, dass im All sogenannte Fullerene und deren Abkömmlinge entstehen können – grosse Kohlenstoffmoleküle in Fussball-, Schüssel- oder Röhrchenform. Ein internationales Forschungsteam hat .. gezeigt, wie diese Reaktion abläuft... Pressemitteilung des Paul Scherrer Instituts (PSI)."

https://www.raumfahrer.net/psi-so-entstehen-fussballmolekuele-im-weltall/

#Astronomie #Buckyball #Corannulenyl #Fullerene #Fussballmolekül #Nanotube #PSI #Schweiz #Spitzer #Sternenstaub #Synchrotron #TC1 #Vinylacetylen

27.3.2023

PSI: So entstehen Fussballmoleküle im Weltall – Raumfahrer.net

Scientific Frontline Mar 27, 2023

For a long time, it has been suspected that #fullerene and its derivatives could form naturally in the #universe. These are large #carbon #molecules shaped like a football, salad bowl or #nanotube.
#Chemistry #Science #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/03/chm03272302.html

How football-shaped molecules occur in the universe

For a long time it has been suspected that fullerene and its derivatives could form naturally in the universe.

CellBioNews Feb 20, 2023

Researchers develop first #nanotube #sensors capable of detecting and distinguishing #gibberellin #plant #hormones.

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-nanotube-sensors-capable-distinguishing-gibberellin.html

Researchers develop first nanotube sensors capable of detecting and distinguishing gibberellin plant hormones

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore and their collaborators from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) have developed the first ever nanosensor that can detect and distinguish gibberellins (GAs), a class of hormones in plants that are important for growth.

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