{"id":107859,"date":"2020-05-30T02:28:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T09:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/teslaphoresis-activated-self-assembling-carbon-nanotubes-look-even-cooler-than-they-sound"},"modified":"2020-05-30T02:28:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T09:28:39","slug":"teslaphoresis-activated-self-assembling-carbon-nanotubes-look-even-cooler-than-they-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/teslaphoresis-activated-self-assembling-carbon-nanotubes-look-even-cooler-than-they-sound","title":{"rendered":"Teslaphoresis-activated self-assembling carbon nanotubes look even cooler than they sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teslaphoresis-activated-self-assembling-carbon-nanotubes-look-even-cooler-than-they-sound.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2016<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Not all important scientific research is cool looking, or has a cool name. But now and then you get something with both. These <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.rice.edu\/2016\/04\/14\/nanotubes-assemble-rice-introduces-teslaphoresis\/\">self-assembling carbon nanotubes<\/a> are created with a process called Teslaphoresis. If you\u2019ve read a more impressive-sounding sentence today, I\u2019d like to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>Even the lab of Rice University chemist Paul Cherukuri looks like a proper mad scientist\u2019s lair. But don\u2019t let the flashy trappings fool you: this is a very significant development.<\/p>\n<p>Nanotubes are one of these carbon supermaterials that, like graphene, are full of interesting properties and theoretical applications but \u2014 again like graphene \u2014 are difficult to manufacture cheaply and reliably. This new method could be a breakthrough in the creation of the ultra-thin, ultra-strong, and ultra-conductive carbon nanowires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2016 Not all important scientific research is cool looking, or has a cool name. But now and then you get something with both. These self-assembling carbon nanotubes are created with a process called Teslaphoresis. If you\u2019ve read a more impressive-sounding sentence today, I\u2019d like to hear it. Even the lab of Rice University chemist [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}