Armchair Quantum Wire
From Miiu.org
AQW
“Armchair quantum wire” (AQW) will be a weave of metallic nanotubes that can carry electricity with negligible loss over long distances. It will be an ideal replacement for the nation’s copper-based grid, which leaks electricity at an estimated 5 percent per 100 miles of transmission, the researchers said.
The key was finding the right balance of temperatures, pressures, reaction times and catalyst ratios to promote growth and retard etching.
- Alvin W. Orbaek, Andrew C. Owens, Andrew R. Barron, Increasing the Efficiency of Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Amplification by Fe–Co Catalysts Through the Optimization of CH4/H2Partial Pressures, Nano Letters, 2011; 11 (7): 2871 [DOI: 10.1021/nl201315j]
- Read more about how amplified nanotubes may power the future.
- See also quantum mechanics
