Comments on: My CNT is Better than Your CNT… Or At Least It's Different http://blogs.edf.org/nanotechnology/2008/04/07/not-all-cnts-are-created-equal/ Our experts' views on chemical and nano news Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:07:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew Maynard http://blogs.edf.org/nanotechnology/2008/04/07/not-all-cnts-are-created-equal/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Andrew Maynard Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:44:18 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/nanotechnology/2008/04/07/not-all-cnts-are-created-equal/#comment-109 Cal, An interesting aside to this - last year we published a paper looking at the physical characteristics of airborne aggregates released from single waled carbon nanotube paper. One surprising outcome was that two different batches of what was purportedly the same material led to completely different particles being released; most likely with very different risk profiles. From the first batch, particles were compact and predominantly non-nanotube carbonaceous material. But from the second batch, very open-structured aggregates of carbon nanotubes were released. Images and further details in: http://dx.doi.org:10.1007/s11051-006-9178-2 Andrew Cal,

An interesting aside to this – last year we published a paper looking at the physical characteristics of airborne aggregates released from single waled carbon nanotube paper. One surprising outcome was that two different batches of what was purportedly the same material led to completely different particles being released; most likely with very different risk profiles. From the first batch, particles were compact and predominantly non-nanotube carbonaceous material. But from the second batch, very open-structured aggregates of carbon nanotubes were released.

Images and further details in: http://dx.doi.org:10.1007/s11051-006-9178-2

Andrew

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