Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

A study conducted by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and the Università degli Studi di Roma "La ...

The effective dispersion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is critical to their commercial success in applications such as energy ...

The Skoltech Laboratory of Nanomaterials, along with the Ural Federal University and the Institute of Engineering Science ...

The chemical maker Huntsman adds a twist with a system based on floating-catalyst chemical vapor deposition that yields its carbon in the form of multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Operators feed ...

For carbon nanotubes to take advantage of the lithium battery market, more emphasis must be placed on innovations around safety.

Led by Assistant Professor Kou Li, a research group in Chuo University, Japan, has developed chemically enriched ...

Experiments show that carbon nanotubes transfer heat inefficiently at small scales, raising concerns for cooling and ...

Chemically enriched photo-thermoelectric imagers built from semiconducting carbon nanotube films show improved signal ...