[geeks] Carbon nanotube buckytape

[Gregory Leblanc]

Phil Stracchino wrote:

>Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
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>>They are conductive?  So basically you could re-wire your house with it?
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>I don't know how good of a replacement it'd make for copper wire.
>Carbon nanotubes are, if memory serves, either conductive or
>semiconductive depending on the alignment of the atoms in the tube.
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>I suspect you'd need a hell of a lot of it to replace conventional
>copper house wiring.
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The ones that are conductors are better conductors than any known metal, 
so they ought to be suitable, eventually.  At the moment, however, I 
don't believe they can even control what electrical properties 
(conductor, semi-conductor, or insulator) the nanotubes have when they 
make them, so using them for anything at the moment is rather far off.  
Incredibly cool tech, though.  I did a research paper with nanotubes as 
one topic a couple of months ago, so I've got some reasonably recent data.
    Greg