Christened “colossal carbon tubes,” the new structures aren’t quite as strong as nanotubes but are still 30 times stronger than Kevlar per unit weight, and are potentially easier to turn ...

colossal carbon tubes. Thousands of times bigger than their nano counterparts, these tubes have exceptional mechanical and electrical properties and could find applications from microelectric devices ...

A relatively huge, lightweight carbon tube with good strength and electrical properties is desirable, all right, because it can be manipulated in the far more accessible micrometer regime. But is it ...

The porous tubes also conduct electricity rather well, suggesting that they could find uses in flexible 'textile electronics'. The team call these structures colossal carbon tubes, because they ...

15). Much larger than carbon nanotubes, the newly discovered colossal carbon tubes are visible to the naked eye and have an unusual structure, shown here in a sketch. Non-nanotubes Researchers ...

Colossal Carbon Tubes Created Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory have discovered jumbo carbon nanotubes that may have uses in applications from electronics to ...