Super Batteries Made From ‘Frozen Smoke’ May be Here Soon

http://inhabitat.com/super-batteries-made-from-frozen-smoke-may-be-here-soon/

"Due to its carbon nanotube structure, the battery material would be able to detect even the slightest changes in pressure or temperature. As they also make up a large surface area, the nanotubes would be better able to store energy than conventional batteries."

Breakthrough nanotape tech promises cooler chips

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/1/24/new-nanotape-tech-promises-cooler-chips/

"The new material promises a lot: featuring a thermal conductivity comparable to copper but a flexibility and ability to expand and contract as a result of temperature changes without breaking that is more like a foam, its creators believe that it could be a major breakthrough in the race to create ever-smaller and ever-faster devices."

Ultralight Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Aerogel

http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/nn102246a

"We have fabricated the lightest free-standing monolithic MWCNT aerogels with a density of 4 mg/cm³. The strong chemical bonding interactions between MWCNTs played a key role in the fabrication, which was proved both experimentally and theoretically. The MWCNT aerogel has an anisotropic macroporous honeycomb structure with straight and parallel honeycomb channels and mesoporous honeycomb walls. The MWCNT aerogel is a hierachically porous material with a surface area of 580 m²/g and electrical conductivity of 3.2 × 10⁻² S·cm⁻¹ (0.67 S·cm⁻¹ after high-current pulse treatment). The MWCNT aerogel demonstrates excellent compression recovery property. The unique anisotropic honeycomb structure combined with the hierarchical porosity with large surface area, compression recovery property, and high electrical conductivity makes the MWCNT aerogel promising for applications as chemoresistant vapor sensor and ultrasensitive pressure sensor. Other potential applications of the MWCNT aerogel may include catalyst supports and novel electrodes."

How do you cut a nanotube? Lots of compression

http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20101218/4717/how-do-you-cut-a-nanotube-lots-of-compression.htm

"In a paper published this month in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, researchers at Brown University and in Korea document for the first time how single-walled carbon nanotubes are cut, a finding that could lead to producing more precise, higher-quality nanotubes. Such manufacturing improvements likely would make the nanotubes more attractive for use in automotive, biomedicine, electronics, energy, optics and many other fields."