Carbon nanotubes offer new way to produce electricity

 

 

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Carbon nanotubes offer new way to produce electricity

vía Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine el 8/03/10

MIT scientists have discovered that a moving pulse of heat traveling along the miniscule wires known as carbon nanotubes can cause powerful waves of energy. These "thermopower waves" can drive electrons along like a collection of flotsam propelled along the surface of ocean waves, creating an electrical current. The previously unknown phenomenon opens up a new area of energy research and could lead to a new way of producing electricity...

Tags: Electricity, MIT, Nanotubes, Nanowires

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