[Jlab-seminars] Nanotube Colloquium: CEBAF Center Auditorium Feb. 9 at 4pm

[D. W. Higinbotham]

Nanotubes - 20 Years and Into the Future
Mike Smith

Since the 1991 publication of the seminal paper describing the carbon 
nanotube, thousands of researchers have explored nanotubes' properties 
and potential applications. Few realize, however, that carbon's 
immediate neighbors on the periodic chart, boron and nitrogen, can 
also form perfect nanotubes. Mike Smith of NASA Langley Research 
Center will describe the discovery of a new method for making BNNTs 
that was developed at JLab's FEL. For applications from space 
elevators to nuclear physics, Smith will explore the possibility that 
better nanotubes have finally arrived.