Carbon nanotubes?
So I think I made carbon nanotubes by accident. I was working on carbon capping copper. I recently got a microscope so i've been looking at all the particles I've been making. So when I was running the copper 2 weird things happened.
1, the solution was sparkly. Looked more sparkly than a diamond and very much copper colored. At first I thought I'd made metallic copper and threw it under the microscope. Batch 1 (9hours) top batch 2 (12 hours) bottom. Notice one is significantly more sparkly
2. Immediately I could see the long tube like structures you see below. Weirder still I could see the copper. Inside the tube were hundreds of embedded tiny copper spheres. I repeated it today but for longer and the spheres were gone and the tubes were both much longer and more fragile. A few minutes under the microscope seems to cause the longer reaction time batch to shatter spontaneously. I may have just crushed them or something but it was still weird and carbon nanotubes don't usually do that.
In shortish, I think I made carbon nanotubes in my oven using a totally green method and they have some of the strangest optical properties I've seen. Also they may actually be resonating with some electromagnetic frequency and shattering cause the batch today was super unstable. A few minutes under the microscope and they all shattered. Yet the ones still in the jar are fine. LOL I'll do a video on the process this weekend and probably put it out next weekend. I have no idea and doubt i'll actually be able to do much with these, but the fact that I pulled it off and that no paper on earth to my knowledge has written about this is cool. there was one paper that used PVA and starch and their tubes were better (longer mainly and a distinct copper core(although i've only done this twice so gimme time to optimize and we'll see who's are better)) but they also took 24 hours to form. Mine were made using green tea and formed in 9 hours.
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Sincerely,
John Doe