Diamond Nanotubes Created

raxxy writes to tell us that researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne Nation Laboratory have taken the next step in nano development. Combining the process for 'growing' diamonds and the latest in carbon nanotubes has given birth to a diamond-nanotube composite. From the article: "Diamond has its drawbacks, however. Diamond is a brittle material and is normally not electrically conducting. Nanotubes, on the other hand, are incredibly strong and are also great electrical conductors, but harnessing these attributes into real materials has proved elusive. By integrating these two novel forms of carbon together at the nanoscale a new material is produced that combines the material properties of both diamond and nanotubes."

ah yes,

[SamAdam3d]

everyone's tubes keep getting longer and harder all the time.

How can you make 20 years salary last forever...

[inkdesign]

With a diamond-nanotube composite ring.

Wow!!

[ki4iib]

Dude! Diamonds AND nanotubes!!! That's like, pirates AND ninjas!!!!!

Thus, we result in...

[Trip Ericson]

Dinotubes.

Thank you, I'll be here all next week.

What better way to spend 99999months salary?

[Thedeviluno]

This is a nano diamond ring, you cant see it but will you marry me?

Re:Tubes

[ectizen]

with modern technology that could be solved, either by altering the rotation of the Earth or the orbit of the Moon

I am intrigued by your notions of "modern technology" and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Re:How can you make 20 years salary last forever..

[Black Parrot]

Maybe she'll settle for a tubular zirconia.

Heirarchy of Modifiers

[fossa]

(Off topic reply to myself...)

Speaking of "Ultranano", I think we need some sort of official ranking of these types of modifiers. Based on my experience in a retail store stocking hair gel, I've come up with the following heirarchy (as applied to hair gel hold strength):

1. Ultimate Extreme
2. Mega Mega
3. Ultra
4. Mega
5. Super

Please make additions or corrections to this list. I think this should become an ISO standard or something.

Re:What better way to spend 99999months salary?

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course, honey! It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion with the lotion! I mean, in the ocaen! Oh, wait, you meant the stone in the ring.

Re:Heirarchy of Modifiers

[nb caffeine]

instead of mega mega, i think ultra mega, and then super ultra mega. There is more words, so it has to be more better! :)


(bad grammer is intentional)

Re:dupe, or perhaps not?

[Anonymous Coward]

When a nanorod and a nanotube love each other very much....

Transcript of discovery

[mpn14tech]

First Scientist: Hey! You got nanotubes in my diamonds! Second Scientist: Hey! You got diamonds in my nanotubes!

Re:Space elevator

[Daniel Dvorkin]

The space elevator is a fantasy (etc.)

Good thing you're so much smarter than all them fancy-pants scientists and engineers with their high-falutin' PhD's and book-learnin' working on that damn-fool idea! If they just listen to you, they'll stop wasting their time!

Re:Tubes

[DoraLives]

don't know how we could increase pi, are you sure that's possible?

Why hell, I bet I could increase pi up to a couple of hundred if I felt like taking the time to do it right. Just go ahead and insert those diameters in the circumference and then pin them off and then just beat the living hell out of the remainder of whatever diameter is still hanging out there until it by god just goes on in. With a big enough beater, and enought time, and who knows, maybe a torch kit or something, I'm pretty sure I could work things out to get pi to most any old number you might want.

Re:I think the important question

[Anonymous Coward]

Except the fact that it's not funny. We've all seen that movie. It was funny when he did it, not when you did it.

Drawbacks

[ShakaUVM]

>Diamond has its drawbacks, however. Diamond is a
>brittle material and is normally not electrically
>conducting.

You know, for all that diamonds don't conduct electricity and such, women still go crazy for 'em.

Women!

I just love /. headlines

[zanderredux]

By integrating these two novel forms of carbon together at the nanoscale a new material is produced that

combines the material properties of both diamond and nanotubes.

So... is it like tieing a piece of bread with butter on it to the back of a cat?

We all know that bread with butter always falls with the butter face down and that the cat always falls on its paws, so one will cancel the other and the cat will be able to defy gravity, being suspended in mid-air?

re:

[swatthatfly]

"Diamond has its drawbacks, however. Diamond is a brittle material and is normally not electrically conducting. Nanotubes, on the other hand, are incredibly strong and are also great electrical conductors, but harnessing these attributes into real materials has proved elusive. "

Looks like they take two great technologies and put them together to get one mediocre result.

Combined properties ?

[ultranova]

By integrating these two novel forms of carbon together at the nanoscale a new material is produced that combines the material properties of both diamond and nanotubes.

So this thing is brittle but very hard to produce ? ...in Soviet Russia !