A bit of digging around in the F1 technical regulations (thanks to Chris Walker at Diamond Hard Surfaces for originally drawing our attention to this) only found the following prohibition on using carbon nanotubes incorporated within carbon fibres, although given the difficulty of making an accurate distinction between nanotubes, nanofibres and carbon fibre. It would be interesting to …
…and now the Good News
Perhaps there is a silver lining to the ever gathering dark clouds after all? Companies with cash in the bank will be able to pick up a whole range of technologies that, to be frank, were never going to make it to the market on their own, for sums in the low millions which is pretty much what an unproven …
Indigestion and Frustrated Phagocytosis
A Teeny Wafer Thin Nanotube Sir? The big news while I was on my transglobal sabbatical was that Ken Donaldson and Andrew Seaton have finally proved that long nanotubes produce the same kind of indigestion (or frustrated phagocytosis) in macrophages as a seven course meal in a great restaurant such as Grenoble’s l’Escalier sometimes causes in me. Richard Jones blogs …