Can Nanotubes Revolutionize Lubricants and Bearings?

[Erich]

Dear Folks:

The line in this article about testers being " simply unable to create enough friction in the lubricant to produce measurable damage - even when trial durations were increased severely beyond specifications", makes this sound as good as a magnetic bearing.

Israel21c

Erich

 

[willib]

i saw something about nano tubes and buckey balls recently , it occurred to me that it would make an excellent lubricant..they even had nano disks .. anyway the nano tubes are supposed to be the stiffist, must rigid substance known to man..

 

[Jake]

Heres a link to the full article:

http://israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles%5El866&enSearchQueryID=25&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Technology&

Very interesting indeed.

 

[willib]

Thanks for finding the article in question..
it was very interesting.
i also read somewhere that UNC chapel hill is working on them also..

 

[willib]

this is from the article i was reading..

A form of soot, nanotubes are created by arcing electricity between two sticks of carbon. They measure 10 to 30 nanometers in diameter and about one to five millionths of a meter long. Little more than a decade ago, a Japanese scientist discovered the tiny tubes, which are proving to be stiffer and stronger than any other known substance.

http://www.3rdtech.com/NanoManipulator_Nov28_News.htm