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 […]
Archive for December, 2006
Carbon nanotubes
Published by December 31st, 2006 in carbon nano tube, nanotechnology and nobel prize. 0 CommentsChemical blogspace is a new “web2.0”-application for chemistry: it aggregates chemistry blogs, analyses their content and does magic with it. Especially useful is the “what papers are people talking about?” section, which, in a way, is the online version of a hot literature seminar… check it out!
Skysails - new but old ways of generating energy
Published by December 10th, 2006 in ancient technology and energy. 0 CommentsSomething not obviously related to goo per se, but nevertheless impoartant is the question “Where do we get our goo from, anyway?”. And one major answer to this is: “via freight ships”. And those consume goo in its most ancient form (although refined and processed) but still much more related to crude oil than many […]
