Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, have succeeded in producing sensors from single-wall carbon nanotubes that could enable major advances in health care, such as continuous health ...

In a new study, researchers produced nanomaterials that could be used in developing more accurate sensors for healthcare in the future. For example, the levels of female hormones are so low that very ...

Carbon nanotubes in solution. Carbon nanotubes with different chirality, or“twist”, have different optical properties: one type of nanotube is yellow and the other is violet. (Photo: Mikael Nyberg) ...

This advancement in nanotechnology, which involves precisely controlling nanotube chirality, could revolutionise medical diagnostics by enhancing biosensor sensitivity for applications like hormone ...

Figure 1: Scott and colleagues propose growing single-chirality carbon nanotubes through the ... starting material — such as the (8,8) nanotube segment shown in 1 — in a Diels–Alder reaction ...

It is possible to recognize zigzag, armchair, and chiral CNTs just by following ... and largest manufacturers and suppliers of carbon nanotubes (in alphabetical order). For individual carbon nanotube ...

The nanotubes’ chemical and electric properties are significantly chirality-dependent ... "University of Turku develops carbon nanotube sensors for health monitoring" was originally created ...

The collapse and stability of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have important implications for their synthesis and applications. While nanotube collapse has been ... respectively. The CNT chirality also has a ...

Dr. Han Joong Tark's team at KERI's Nano Hybrid Technology Research Center has successfully fabricated "functional wires," ...

A long-standing challenge in developing the material has been that the nanotube ... chirality. In the current study, the researchers succeeded in distinguishing between two carbon nanotubes ...