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December 15, 2009

UCSD: Defective carbon nano tubes get big self-esteem boost
— Purple Avenger

Not too often that GOOD is better that PERFECT.

...artificially introduced defects in nanotubes can aid the development of supercapacitors.
Â“While batteries have large storage capacity, they take a long time to charge; while electrostatic capacitors can charge quickly but typically have limited capacity. However, supercapacitors/electrochemical capacitors incorporate the advantages of both,Â” Bandaru said...

Light weight, high power density == eco-friendly electric flying cars

As an aside, we've been working on some laser fab stuff that could be used to introduce these "defects" in a very controlled manner. Nano tubes aren't our main thrust, but the nano-scale laser processing tech we've been developing has many applications.

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Posted by: Purple Avenger at 08:49 AM | Comments (51)
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1 Isn't this going to piss off that laptop battery guy?

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 15, 2009 08:52 AM (xxgag)

2 I remember when I was the hero.

Posted by: inanimate carbon rod at December 15, 2009 08:52 AM (2qU2d)

3 I thought carbon was evil?

Posted by: Jean at December 15, 2009 08:54 AM (feZkI)

4 You just gave my pocket protector a woodrow.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 15, 2009 08:55 AM (ZGhSv)

Electric flying cars?

That does sound cool ala The Jettsons or even the flying Delorian in Back to the Future, but there are lots of idiots that can't drive in 2 dimensions properly, not to mention what added strain an additional dimension will cause them.

Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at December 15, 2009 08:56 AM (9hSKh)

6 Great. Now we will have a Carbon shortage and we will have another Ice Age.
By 2035 there ill be snow in Ecuador.

Posted by: Al Gore at December 15, 2009 08:56 AM (Q1lie)

7 Clear violation of the solitary voice of this blog. B+

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at December 15, 2009 08:57 AM (DIYmd)

8 Seriously, a non-linear mechanism to increase receptor sites might be nice in the lab, but will be hard to productize. I seem to remember a similar approach that involved seeding a carbon nano-lattice like structure with some larger atoms that provided an improved capacitance.

Posted by: Jean at December 15, 2009 08:58 AM (tJF9l)

9 Ah!! The blog reads funny now!!!1! I am overcome by bylines...

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 15, 2009 08:59 AM (Be4xl)

10 PA, did you not get the Sullivan memo from earlier?

Posted by: Dead Horse at December 15, 2009 08:59 AM (zyyJm)

11 What happened to this being a one-man blog? I feel so manipulated!

Posted by: sullivan worshipper at December 15, 2009 08:59 AM (OS2KR)

12
Yeah, but do your nano-scale lasers come attached to cute little nano-scale sharks?

Posted by: dan-O at December 15, 2009 09:01 AM (+9Rf8)

13 Unfortunately, I couldn't get the solitary voice login to work. I know, I've completely blown Ace's charade and exposed his feet of clay.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 15, 2009 09:01 AM (KgWin)

14 Posted by: Mama AJ at December 15, 2009 12:59 PM (Be4xl)

That was very funny.

Posted by: DrewM. at December 15, 2009 09:01 AM (FCWQb)

15 An awful lot of good inventions came about as unexpected or unintended results. Viagra, for example.

Posted by: rawmuse at December 15, 2009 09:01 AM (SLMWU)

16 Electric flying cars... B+

Posted by: AndrewsDad at December 15, 2009 09:01 AM (MsyOh)

17 I seem to remember a similar approach that involved seeding a carbon nano-lattice like structure with some larger atoms that provided an improved capacitance.

That's precisely the sort of thing our laser-tech can accomplish. We've become pretty adept at infusing lattice structures with selected contaminant atoms at controllable concentrations.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 15, 2009 09:04 AM (KgWin)

18 It's probably just as well. Sooner or later somebody was going to remember that ace had declared Open Blog Tuesday since he wouldn't be around at all today, yesterday.

Posted by: Dead Horse/Methos at December 15, 2009 09:04 AM (zyyJm)

19 P.A. is now sent to the doghouse. Bad co-beagle!

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 15, 2009 09:05 AM (Be4xl)

Posted by: dan-O at December

loled

and.. I got nothin

Posted by: Truman North at December 15, 2009 09:05 AM (e8YaH)

21 All the best cool stuff, like this, is due to me. Nothing good happens but that I bring it about. Remember this. Remember well, and worship me.

Posted by: The Government at December 15, 2009 09:05 AM (SCcgT)

22 Maybe I could fuck up the HTML to distract people away from the post author?

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 15, 2009 09:06 AM (KgWin)

23 How will this make porn better?

Posted by: EC at December 15, 2009 09:06 AM (mAhn3)

24 How will this make porn better?

Lighter longer lasting portable DIVX players.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 15, 2009 09:07 AM (KgWin)

25 How will this make my penis bigger?

Posted by: Truman North at December 15, 2009 09:08 AM (e8YaH)

26 Have someone else double post about this as Ace.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 15, 2009 09:09 AM (Be4xl)

27 I wasn't talking to you, Truman, but that sure made for a funny answer to your question!

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 15, 2009 09:10 AM (Be4xl)

28 How will this make my penis bigger?

"Active" implants with extended power sources.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 15, 2009 09:12 AM (KgWin)

29 Uhm, I like Nano-cream pies and Nano Splits.....

*blink blink*

Posted by: Intrepid at December 15, 2009 09:13 AM (92zkk)

30
IT'S GONNA BLOW!

Posted by: President Informercial at December 15, 2009 09:14 AM (z37MR)

31 Woooo......blinking link! Pretty! Makes me want to buy things......

Posted by: Intrepid at December 15, 2009 09:14 AM (92zkk)

32 The blink tag? What's next? The marquee?

Posted by: DM! at December 15, 2009 09:15 AM (34YIo)

33 Aw, it quit blinking! I feel strangely bereft. And a little hung over.

Posted by: Intrepid at December 15, 2009 09:15 AM (92zkk)

34 Check out the new subliminals

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 15, 2009 09:26 AM (KgWin)

35 Is this like, smart science stuff?

Posted by: teej at December 15, 2009 09:26 AM (QdUKm)

36 Anyone know where I can pick up some nano-lace wigs?

Posted by: krakatoa at December 15, 2009 09:27 AM (hQbvm)

37 I've been artificially introducing defects in myself for years with nary a benefit. Who knew nanotubes could handle it?

Posted by: dfbaskwill at December 15, 2009 09:29 AM (7Gs5S)

38 This is great news PA - supercapacitors can take the place of batteries and can really advance all sorts of fields. The problem, though, is that nanotechnology is being set up to be the next asbestos - the unending scourge of mankind. There are studied out there already that warn about nanoparticles going into the body and doing unspeakable things. It is only a matter of time before someone comes down with some bizarre illness and blames it on nanoparticles, launching an entire new field of litigation.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 15, 2009 09:30 AM (F+U5/)

39 Defective carbon nanotubes make excellent lace wigs.
_{for some reason I felt compelled to point that out}

Buckyballs, on the other hand, make outstanding beard stubble for those of your going for the Don Johnson look.

Posted by: Y-not at December 15, 2009 09:32 AM (sey23)

How will this make my penis bigger?

It won't, we're just attaching positive contextual associations to the word "nanotube".

Like now it's a good, cool thing to have.

So buck up, Bobby. You might not be able to satisfy a woman but you'll be able to store a charge of up to 40 gigawatts in your flux capacitor.

I'm talking about his penis.

Nanotube. Flux capacitor.

It's his penis.

In case you didn't get that.

I'm saying his penis is very very small.

Nanoscopic, in fact. This man has a nanoscopic penis, literally, is the jist that you should derive from that statement about the diminutive nature of his sexual organs.

In journalism they would refer to the minisculinity of his male member as 'the lead' or the hook. The central point of the text around which all of the other writing revolves and refers to.

So, key take away here: Teeny tiny peepee.

Posted by: Entropy at December 15, 2009 09:32 AM (IsLT6)

41 Check out the new subliminals

Nice.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 15, 2009 09:33 AM (NtiET)

42 Meh, unless it brings me one step closer to having my own light saber...

Posted by: teej at December 15, 2009 09:34 AM (QdUKm)

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Posted by: Royalmewigs at December 15, 2009 09:44 AM (ijjAe)

44 the nano-scale laser processing tech we've been developing has many applications

Arming sharks, perhaps?

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at December 15, 2009 09:54 AM (1hM1d)

45 Warning, do not short Happy Fun Capacitor

Posted by: AE at December 15, 2009 10:00 AM (+xtu8)

46 The problem, though, is that nanotechnology is being set up to be the next asbestos - the unending scourge of mankind.

I think nano-tube tech should, in most cases, be able to get encapsulated in an bio-inert carrier material. We've spent a lot of time building structures inside other stuff (endotaxy vs epitaxy)

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 15, 2009 10:16 AM (KgWin)

Lattice structure? Contaminent atoms!

*starts hyperventilating*

Sorry - I love me some chemistry - haven't heard those words since college.

mac :]

Posted by: macbrooks at December 15, 2009 10:22 AM (J+MD4)

48 I work at UCSD and ain't never seen no dang nanotubes flying around.

Posted by: JsinGood at December 15, 2009 11:33 AM (jthe+)

49 To Hell with electric cars, I want flying powered armor. With big frickin' lasers.

And it recharges when you tear down power lines.

I want to punch a tank to death.

Oh, and what's with those toy helicopters that only fly for like three minutes? Fix that, too.

Posted by: Merovign, Strong on His Mountain at December 15, 2009 05:34 PM (bxiXv)

50 Forget it...

...I've got subliminal ad blocker.

...see?

Posted by: g at December 15, 2009 06:40 PM (YcNaQ)

51 hmmmm..... i read nanotubes yet have the urge to buy some lace wigs.

How odd.

Posted by: blogRot at December 15, 2009 10:42 PM (IqNbu)

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