How to Use nanotube in a Sentence

nanotube

noun
  • Carbon nanotubes play a key role here.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Their method ensures that the dopants are placed right over the nanotube.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Each nanotube is only a few atoms across and about as long as a strand of hair is wide.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
  • On the Moon, the nanotubes were formed from a violent process.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Our first step was to find a way to grow carbon nanotubes that were as aligned as possible.
    — Max Shulaker, IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2016
  • Now the carbon nanotube is back and better than ever.
    — Max Shulaker, IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2016
  • In a hollow nanotube, these particles hit a dead end.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026
  • Vantablack is made from carbon nanotubes, which are tiny carbon cylinders with walls as thin as one atom.
    — Sophie.erickson, The Verge, 20 Aug. 2019
  • How did the tunneling nanotubes go unnoticed for such a long time?
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The thin, flexible cylinders of carbon known as carbon nanotubes might fit the bill.
    — Colin Stuart, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
  • As a way to bypass that entire issue, the researchers turned to carbon nanotubes.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Oct. 2016
  • The initial discovery of carbon nanotubes is hard to pinpoint in time.
    — Max Shulaker, IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2016
  • These discs line up along the carbon nanotube, which has pores that electrons from the reaction center can pass through.
    — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2010
  • To do this, the researchers added carbon nanotubes, which are conductors, to the mixture.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Boron nitride nanotubes, on the other hand, capture neutrons.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 1 May 2026
  • The research largely focused on controlling the growth of the nanotubes.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
  • To make a chip, researchers would have to find a way to construct billions of transistors from a sea of carbon nanotubes.
    — Max Shulaker, IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2016
  • For the finalists, those products range from concrete to carbon nanotubes.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The membrane of film plus nanotube worked well, but wasn't practical in 2013.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
  • And there have been some notable successes, such as a 1 nanometer gate made of a single carbon nanotube.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
  • To make these threads, the researchers first grew curly carbon nanotubes that stick out from the silicon carbide surface like ringlets of hair.
    — Prachi Patel, Scientific American, 26 June 2017
  • To make these threads, the researchers first grew curly carbon nanotubes that stick out from the silicon carbide surface like ringlets of hair.
    — Prachi Patel, Scientific American, 26 June 2017
  • The main difference is that the channel is made of carbon nanotubes instead of silicon.
    — Max Shulaker, IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2016
  • This is topped with a layer of interconnects, then an array of carbon nanotube logic.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2017
  • In the previous, 1 nanometer device, the gate was made of a single carbon nanotube.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
  • When metallic, these offer little resistance to electron flow along the nanotube.
    — ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Built with carbon nanotubes, this coating will transfer heat from electric elements to the wing surfaces.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2017
  • There are also multi-walled carbon nanotubes, where a second nanotube (and maybe third, and maybe more beyond that) is wrapped around the first.
    — ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • While the more conductive nanotubes weren’t stable, the discovery may point the way toward something with a longer shelf life.
    — ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Doped nanotubes Carbon nanotubes come in various forms.
    — ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026

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