Scientists Sort Semiconducting Nanotubes by Size 63
SuperGrads writes "Scientists working at Rice University have developed the world's first method for not only sorting semiconducting carbon nanotubes from their metallic brethren, but also for arranging them by diameter size. This ability is essential for building devices from these tubes and paves the way for high-speed nanoscale electronics."
Monstrosity! (Score:5, Funny)
(/me mods own post: troll)
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Re:Monstrosity! (Score:5, Funny)
You're right, so I asked God. He said no, carbon nanotubes are not living beings in His eyes. Then he said that skin cells were, and I was going to Hell for so brazenly sloughing them off by the thousands right in front of Him. He sounded really angry, and I got really scared, then He told me he was just kidding, cells were part of my body and their deaths were a natural part of my life. Then He said that viruses were not part of my body, and that most of my white blood cells were going to Hell. He vanished before I could ask him if he was joking or not.
God has a weird sense of humor.
Re:Monstrosity! (Score:1)
Re:Monstrosity! (Score:2)
No kidding!
How else do you explain the duck-billed platypus?
Let's just hope (Score:3, Funny)
ACHOO!!!! Ahhh crap... Gotta start again.
In the future... (Score:5, Funny)
When electronics in the future is made up of carbon tubes of different sizes, will we have machine in the drug store with all sorts of various sockets that I can plug them into to test them?
(this joke may reference things that are too old [radiohistory.org] for the average Slashdotter to get. :D)
Re:In the future... (Score:2)
Re:In the future... (Score:2)
Some of us remmeber the old tube testers (with the bins of new tubes underneath).
The gut wrenching part in the site I linked to is the fact that they had the tube tester in their "museum". Couldn't it be in their "specialty part boutique" or something? :D
Re:In the future... (Score:2)
So, now we've got nanowire, nanotubes and nano*. Does this mean that Singularity is almost upon us?
Re:In the future... (Score:1)
This I know for a fact because I can remember the tube testers in the stores, and I, sadly, am also older than dirt according to my step-daughter.
I guess it could be worse: we could be from an era that did not comprehend electronics at all!
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Re:Does this mean....... (Score:2)
You did what? (Score:2, Funny)
Not the main commercial application (Score:5, Interesting)
Tons per year are used for this, particularly in the auto industry.
Flea Circus (Score:3, Funny)
I am so tired of... (Score:2, Interesting)
Hey, EVERYTHING I hear about nanotubes is promoted as paving the way for high-speed nanoscale electronics. When are they going to actually get here?
Re:I am so tired of... (Score:5, Insightful)
As soon as they finish paving the way, of course.
Nobody drives to bleeding-edge technology on dirt roads anymore. Not since they paved the way to pavement.
Re:I am so tired of... (Score:1)
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1. Experiments must be verified
2. Efficiency of separation is increased
3. This process must have the ability to scale up reasonably
4. The cost of nanotubes becomes much less than $200/gram
And at the end of the day, the production still has to be profitable in the marketplace. Sure these people want to talk about what the fruits of their research will be, they want more funding. I don't see why seem so upset that things like this take time.
Jeeze! (Score:3, Funny)
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And here's where I keep assorted lengths of wire. (Score:5, Funny)
Farnsworth: I designed it myself, let me show you some of the different lengths of wire I used.
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Finally... (Score:5, Funny)
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This is a joke. I am joking. You have been joked with.
Re:Finally... (Score:2)
I don't think that's the sort of "nanotube" they were referring to.
Also that's disgusting. Just use a happy sock like everyone else.
As a Rice Owl myself... (Score:3, Informative)
Students at Rice are constantly drilled with the buzzword, though, and are probably more tired of hearing it than the rest of the technology world. It's hard to pick up a copy of the school newspaper without finding "NANOTECH" in big, bold letters somewhere on the first three pages.
Now if only we could get our football team on par with the rest of the collegiate world...
Re:As a Rice Owl myself... (Score:2)
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In other news... (Score:1)
Re:Little America (Score:1, Redundant)
100% Redundant
No one posted anything about American nanotube investment or any of the other points I made. Mostly a lot of jokes about "nanotube equality" and jokes about theocrats. None mod'ed redundant.
TrollMods hate America.
As the old Super Mario World says.. (Score:2)
Nanotubes substitute Interconnect wires ? (Score:4, Interesting)
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This does not "pave the way" (Score:3, Insightful)
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Should give them something to do... (Score:3, Funny)
While they're at it, they can sort out my sock drawer. Gotta keep those PhDs employed...
wrong headline (Score:4, Interesting)
Separating semiconducting and metallic nanotubes in bulk? (microfluidics is bulk for nanotubes) That's a huge deal! We can't grow just metallic or just semiconducting nanotubes. Previously, we could look at nanotubes one at a time using various methods to *find* a metallic or semiconducting nanotube, but sorting is another thing. If this really works, it will be great for nanotube electronics.
Re:wrong headline (Score:3, Informative)
Sorting nanotubes by SIZE? (Score:1)