carbon nanotube manufacturing
Brian’s comment on a previous post led me down his link path to the Liftport site. That got me thinking about carbon nanotube manufacturing. I wonder if I could set up a facility in the barn and supply material for the time machine industry or something? (Have to get to work solving that tachyon problem, of course…)
The delocalized pi-electron donated by each atom is free to move about
the entire structure, rather than stay home with its donor atom, giving
rise to the first molecule with metallic-type electrical conductivity.
The high-frequency carbon-carbon bond vibrations provide an intrinsic
thermal conductivity higher than even diamond.