SUBJECTS: Science, Technologies
YEARS: 7–8, 9–10
Carbon nanotubes are a very tiny but super strong material used in manufacturing to create strong, lightweight products.
Besides sporting equipment, find out what other kinds of products are made using these tiny molecules.
What other qualities (besides size and strength) do carbon nanotubes have that makes them even more useful?
Watch as host Alex McCarthy demonstrates the various steps in making carbon nanotubes.
Can you think of other uses for this super-material?
Acknowledgements
Growing Nanotube Forests from MIT's Science Out Loud downloaded from PBS LearningMedia, http://www.pbslearningmedia.org. Rights to use this asset do not expire. Asset Copyright MIT+K12 Videos. Credits: Hosted by: Alex McCarthy, Written by: Alex McCarthy, Additional scripting: Elizabeth Choe, George Zaidan, Tyler DeWitt, Science reviewer: Dr. Albert Liao, Executive producer: Elizabeth Choe, Director: George Zaidan, Editors: Jessica Harrop, Per Hoel, Production assistants: Conor Olmstead, Dan Martin. Nanotube microscope images by Alex McCarthy. Music: Local Forecast — Elevator by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/), Local Forecast by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/), Corncob by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/). Special thanks: The John Kassakian group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics (http://www.rle.mit.edu/), David Jenicek of RLE, John Essigman and Simmons Hall. Project funded by: MIT.
Date of broadcast: 9 Jun 2014
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