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| Nano World: Diamond-Nanotube Composites |
| 2005-09-15 |
| A novel hybrid material composed of diamond and carbon nanotubes could find use in everything from biological-weapons detectors to flat-panel displays, experts told UPI's Nano World. Diamond is the hardest material known; it has the highest capability to resist scratches. Carbon nanotubes, on the other hand, are the strongest structures known, and the amount of force they can resist, pound for pound, is the highest ever measured. "There was this kind of 'what if,'" said researcher John Carlisle, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. "What if you could integrate the strongest material known with the hardest known material? Would the sum of the parts be not only hard and tough, but maybe have other capabilities you wouldn't predict?" |
| Posted by:DanNY |
| #2 Roger Penrose hypothesizes that microtubules (similar in structure to nanotubes) are the basis of human consciousness. Incredibly strong, hard, and conscious: the raw material of the Singularity. |
| Posted by: KBK 2005-09-15 16:52 |
| #1 Tough and hard, with a chewey center. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-09-15 16:13 |