And we thought Carbon Nano Tubes were new….

Today I found a bit of news on Natures homepage. It looks like carbon nano tubes are not as new as we all might have believed. The material obviously played a role in the manufacture of Damascus blades.

Now what are Bayer going to do with Baytubes? Will those patents hold up ;-)

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-11.html

1 comment to And we thought Carbon Nano Tubes were new….

  • […] Carbon Nanotubes, as cool and hype as its name suggests, are rather old and part of human technology (And we thought Carbon Nano Tubes were new….) — and definitely in the universe per se. Nevertheless the original discovery of non-planar graphite-derived 3D-shaped molecules was a major breakthrough and lead to a nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of Buckminsterfullerene (also known as C60 or bucky ball), […]

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