This carbon nanotube, imaged by a transmission electron microscope, can act as a radio.
Credit: Courtesy of the Zettle Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California, Berkeley
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Building a Nano Radio
A radio receiver made from a carbon nanotube could be used to wirelessly transmit data from ultrasmall sensors
Source: "Nanotube Radio"
Alex Zettl et al.
Nano Letters 7: 3508-3511
Results: Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California have modified a carbon nanotube so that it performs the functions of a radio, even tuning in the entire FM radio band.
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