Technology Insight Report: Carbon Nanotubes in Energy Storage Devices
Nanotubes are members of thefullerenestructural family
, which also includes the sphericalbuckyballs. The ends of a nanotube might be capped with a hemisphere of the buckyball structure. Their name is derived from their size, since the diameter of a nanotube is on the order of a few nanometers (approximately 1/50,000th of the width of a human hair), while they can be up to 18 centimeters in length (as of 2010).Nanotubes are categorized assingle-walled nanotubes(SWNTs) andmulti-walled nanotubes(MWNTs). Click Here to read more...
Technology Insight Report: Carbon Nanotubes in Energy Storage Devices