Nanotechnology - Carbon Nanotube Electronics

Hi, I'm just a guy who can't wait for this technology to be developed.

I have a question.
Would it be theoretically possible to use biological mechanisms like DNA/RNA coding to produce CNT?

Organisms are carbon-based creatures afterall...

Thank you.

Hi podtech115,
The gold is dissolved away in one of the intermediate steps. It is possible to recover the gold from the solution, however, we currently do not recover the gold. The gold film is very thin (~100nm) so there is actually very little gold (only about 61mg per wafer, which is about $2 worth of gold).

Thank you for the answer.

But I have one more question: What happen to the gold? Can you recover it after it has been used?

Hi jacoman1234567,

I'm glad to hear that you are working in the field of nanotechnology/nanomaterials! The technique in which we use to visually inspect nanotubes is indeed scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Specifically, we find that using a low energy yields the best constrast when viewing nanotubes on quartz, and minimizes any potential damage from the electron beam.

Hi podtech115,

The exact benefits of carbon nanotubes is still remains to be experimentally demonstrated. However, theory suggests that carbon nanotube transistors, and CPUs built from carbon nanotube transistors, have the potential to operate at significantly higher speeds than today's CPUs. That is, today's CPUs operate around 3GHz; carbon nanotube transistors and CPUs may potentially operate at the 30GHz to 3000GHz range. Of course, much of this is still just projections...