Monthly Archives: March 2016

Articles about the slicing nanotubes research, recently published in Nature Scientific Reports, have appeared on several news websites: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-12/new-use-found-for-unboil-an-egg-machine/7241532 http://phys.org/news/2016-03-egg-unboiling-machine-cooks-carbon.html

We report on the use of a laser-based method to slice carbon nanotubes into small, constant-sized lengths. This is achieved by placing a solution of nanotubes in a vortex fluidic device (VFD) and irradiating with 1064nm infrared light from a … Continue reading →