nanotube
noun
nano·tube
ˈna-nə-ˌtüb 
ˈna-nō-
: a microscopic tube whose diameter is measured in nanometers
especially
: one of pure carbon : buckytube
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The company makes carbon nanotubes and graphene, which are used in electric car batteries, and its Kansas investment comes after Panasonic announced plans to create a $4 billion electric battery plant in nearby De Soto.
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Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
Carbon nanotube devices typically have channel lengths of 7-10 nm.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2024
All in all, these new transistors perform roughly as well as state-of-the-art flexible transistors that combine carbon nanotubes, metal oxides, or polycrystalline silicon with plastic films.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2024
Memory Solutions for Machine Learning Researchers in China built a machine learning chip that integrates layers of carbon nanotube transistors, silicon, and memory (RRAM).
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Oct. 2023
New research shows that some cancer cells can fire a long nanotube projection into the T cell that, like a vampire’s fang, sucks energy-creating mitochondria from the immune cell, turning the predator into prey.
—Angus Chen, STAT, 13 Oct. 2023
These materials include hydrogen-rich substances such as water, polyethylene, or hydrogen-rich boron nitride nanotubes.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
It’s based on a three-layer system that includes a silicon CMOS logic layer, a carbon nanotube transistor and RRAM layer, and another layer of RRAM made from a different material.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Oct. 2023
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
Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
Carbon nanotube devices typically have channel lengths of 7-10 nm.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2024
All in all, these new transistors perform roughly as well as state-of-the-art flexible transistors that combine carbon nanotubes, metal oxides, or polycrystalline silicon with plastic films.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2024
Memory Solutions for Machine Learning Researchers in China built a machine learning chip that integrates layers of carbon nanotube transistors, silicon, and memory (RRAM).
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Oct. 2023
New research shows that some cancer cells can fire a long nanotube projection into the T cell that, like a vampire’s fang, sucks energy-creating mitochondria from the immune cell, turning the predator into prey.
—Angus Chen, STAT, 13 Oct. 2023
These materials include hydrogen-rich substances such as water, polyethylene, or hydrogen-rich boron nitride nanotubes.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
It’s based on a three-layer system that includes a silicon CMOS logic layer, a carbon nanotube transistor and RRAM layer, and another layer of RRAM made from a different material.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Oct. 2023
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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First Known Use
1992, in the meaning defined above
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nanotube
noun
nano·tube
-ˌt(y)üb
: a microscopic tube whose diameter is measured in nanometers
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