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  • From cars to medicine, nanotubes may be miracle material

    They are stronger than steel and as flexible as plastic, conduct energy better than almost any material ever discovered and can be made from unexotic raw materials such as methane gas.

  • Nanotubes set to take off

    A manufacturing company expects to increase production of the tiny tubes to commercial volumes during the next two years.

  • Motorola looks to nanotubes for displays

    Motorola is conducting research in a new type of large flat-panel display which they claim has the potential of being cheaper than plasma or LCD (liquid crystal display) screens.

  • Squeezing light from nanotubes

    Researchers at IBM and the University of Toronto are squeezing light out of molecules.

  • IBM reaches nano-computing breakthrough

    IBM researchers have created transistors out of carbon nanotubes that can outperform similar silicon transistors, a development that helps build the case that carbon may one day become a building block of computing.

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  • Squeezing light from nanotubes

    Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fibre-optic technology.

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  • Motorola looks to nanotubes for displays

    Motorola is conducting research in a new type of large flat-panel display which they claim has the potential of being cheaper than plasma or LCD (liquid crystal display) screens.

  • Squeezing light from nanotubes

    Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fibre-optic technology.

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