How to Use nanotube in a Sentence

nanotube

noun

• Each nanotube is only a few atoms across and about as long as a strand of hair is wide.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
• And those metallic nanotubes still lurking in all of this?
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2019
• Strebe, an artist-in-residence at M.I.T., proposed the idea in 2016 to her colleagues, who then got to work on the nanotubes.
  — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• The membrane of film plus nanotube worked well, but wasn't practical in 2013.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
• In tallying the time each task took, the researchers found that in VR, threading the nanotube and tying the knot went much quicker.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 3 July 2018
• The research largely focused on controlling the growth of the nanotubes.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
• To do this, the researchers added carbon nanotubes, which are conductors, to the mixture.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2018
• Vantablack is made from carbon nanotubes, which are tiny carbon cylinders with walls as thin as one atom.
  — Sophie.erickson, The Verge, 20 Aug. 2019
• The thin, flexible cylinders of carbon known as carbon nanotubes might fit the bill.
  — Colin Stuart, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• These discs line up along the carbon nanotube, which has pores that electrons from the reaction center can pass through.
  — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2010
• How did the tunneling nanotubes go unnoticed for such a long time?
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Apr. 2018
• In the previous, 1 nanometer device, the gate was made of a single carbon nanotube.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
• To make these threads, the researchers first grew curly carbon nanotubes that stick out from the silicon carbide surface like ringlets of hair.
  — Prachi Patel, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
• To make these threads, the researchers first grew curly carbon nanotubes that stick out from the silicon carbide surface like ringlets of hair.
  — Prachi Patel, Scientific American, 26 June 2017
• And there have been some notable successes, such as a 1 nanometer gate made of a single carbon nanotube.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
• Carbon nanotubes were first developed more than a decade ago at MIT, earning their creators a Nobel prize along the way.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2017
• For the finalists, those products range from concrete to carbon nanotubes.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2018
• McGinnis explains that ethanol's carbons have an affinity for the inside of the carbon nanotubes.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2019
• For, like Dr Wardle’s nanotubes, diamonds are made of carbon.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2019
• Adding the antibody coating means that more cancer cells, rather than healthy cells, will take in the nanotubes, in turn making the nanotubes less likely to damage healthy tissue.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Apr. 2023
• Their bonds are only 0.1 to 0.3 nanometers long, so the research team used transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to observe the atoms caught in a carbon nanotube.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
• Scientists have captured video of a pair of rhenium atoms breaking apart and bonding again in a carbon nanotube.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
• Carbon nanotubes have more tensile strength than steel, which would not be up to such an intense task, though they haven't been constructed or tested at such a mammoth scale.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Sep. 2018
• So the pair, along with Rice grad students including Doiron, worked to capture those emissions with wafer-scale films of closely packed carbon nanotubes.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2019
• Built with carbon nanotubes, this coating will transfer heat from electric elements to the wing surfaces.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2017
• The efficiency of each depends on the final height, density and distribution of the nanotube forests.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2021
• So far, scientists have only produced carbon nanotubes a few inches long and one nanometer wide.
  — Rachel Feltman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2013
• The nanotubes are 1 nanometer in diameter — far thinner than a human hair — and are injected 24 hours before surgery.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
• Smalley gave Curley two vials of carbon nanotubes, a kind of nanoparticle that is hollow, with a cylinder structure.
  — Erika Hayasaki, Newsweek, 21 July 2015
• One solution is to add metal particles, nanowires or carbon nanotubes to a polymer in order to make the stretchable material conductive.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 26 July 2023

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