CARBON NANOTUBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carbon nanotube mean? 

• CARBON NANOTUBE (noun)
  The noun CARBON NANOTUBE has 1 sense:

1. a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape

  Familiarity information: CARBON NANOTUBE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARBON NANOTUBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

carbon nanotube; nanotube

Hypernyms ("carbon nanotube" is a kind of...):

fullerene (a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms)

 Context examples 

Carbon nanotubes can also be "doped," or modified with small amounts of other elements, giving them electrical properties that include fully insulating, semiconducting, and fully conducting.

(Carbon Nanotubes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A carbon nanotube comprised of two layers of graphitic carbon.

(Double-Walled Nanotube, NCI Thesaurus)

The yarns are constructed from carbon nanotubes, which are hollow cylinders of carbon 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair.

(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The tiny sensor is about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair and made of single-stranded DNA wrapped around a single-walled carbon nanotube.

(High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet Causes Lasting Harmful Effects on Liver, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An explosive device comprised of carbon nanotubes.

(Nanobomb, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientist theorized correctly that he could adapt it to separate carbon nanotubes, rolled sheets of graphene (a single atomic layer of hexagonally bonded carbon atoms), long recognized for their potential applications in computers and tablets, smart phones and other portable devices, photovoltaics, batteries and bioimaging.

(Materials for the next generation of electronics and photovoltaics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Carbon nanotubes can be used as nanometer-scale syringe needles for injecting molecules into cells and as nanoscale probes for making fine-scale measurements.

(Carbon Nanotubes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When a harvester yarn is twisted or stretched, the volume of the carbon nanotube yarn decreases, bringing the electric charges on the yarn closer together and increasing their energy, Haines said.

(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Carbon nanotubes can also form as a series of nested, concentric tubes.

(Carbon Nanotubes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Carbon nanotubes can be filled and capped, forming nanoscale test tubes or potential drug delivery devices.

(Carbon Nanotubes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)