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An explosive thrust for nanotubes

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Carbon nanotubes direct chemically produced thermal waves, providing propulsion and thermopower waves that create electrical energy.

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Figure 1: A chemically driven thermal wave (shown in red) generates thermally excited electrons in a thermopower wave; its propagation to the cold (blue) end of the nanotube can be harvested as electrical energy.

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  1. Ali E. Aliev and Ray H. Baughman are at the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083, USA.,

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Aliev, A., Baughman, R. An explosive thrust for nanotubes. Nature Mater 9, 385–386 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2759

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