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The article reports on the use of carbon nanotubes' solutions to make long nanotube fibers. It states that Matteo Pasquali, a chemical engineer at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and his colleagues have spun carbon nanotubes into fibers hundreds of meters long, showing the possibility to create commercially useful manufacturing techniques for the production of macroscale materials from pure carbon's cylindrical molecules. It notes that Rice professor Richard Smalley, who was known for the discovery of spherical carbon molecules called buckyballs, dreamt of making carbon nanotubes into fibers.

The article offers information on the discovery of a method for industrial-scale processing of pure carbon nanotubes fibers made by scientists at Rice University in Houston, Texas. It says that the nanotubes in acidic solvents such as sulphuric acid form liquid crystals that can be spun into a monofilament fiber just as the size of a human hair. Moreover, it states that the discovery needs a final breakthrough to realize the true potential of the high-quality carbon nanotubes.

The article reports on the collaboration of Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) research team and Bob Welch with Nobel Prize winner Robert Curl and team in Rice University for carbon nanotube research. It says that the collaboration will allow Welch's team to access the findings of the studies of Rice. Moreover, Welch, with the Army's Natick Soldier System Center, has submitted a patent application for Hydrostatically-Enabled Structural Element (HESE) for building stabilization.

The article reports on the research on multiwalled carbon nanotube (CNT) for use in high-brightness organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) in Dallas, Texas. The researchers at the University of Texas found that one of the advantages of CNT lies in its usefulness for flexible OLED displays. They also realized that by increasing the thickness of the CNT, sheet could result to a brightness of 4500 cd/m2 and will have a current efficiency of 2.5 cd/A.

The article reports on the technique developed by Vincent Donnelly, Demetre Economou, and Paul Ruchhoeft, all of the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, that allows nanotechnology devices to be mass produced, which could introduce the television industry to the superior field emission display (FED) and get off from the liquid crystal display (LCD). It is emphasized that FEDs use a large array of carbon nanotubes, which are designed to create a higher resolution picture than LCD.

The article offers information on a nanotube paper with auxetic properties developed by the team of researchers at the NanoTech Institute at the University of Dallas. The paper called "buckypaper," uses carbon nanotube fibres in able to exhibit controllable auxetic behavior. When the materials are stretched in one direction, they get thinner in the other direction, increasing in width.

The article presents a study concerning the significance of aerogels that are made from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), led by Ray H. Baughman of the University of Texas. Study has found that aerogels may serve as artificial muscles, which are electrically powered. Hence, when such actuators turning electrical energy into mechanical one, are said to be possibly be able to have applications in robotics and microscopic pumps.

The article presents a study on a commercial process of producing carbon nanotubes demonstrated by a team of researchers from the NanoTech Institute of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and the Australian research organization Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). It states that the organisations have demonstrated a process which turns synthetically-made carbon nanotubes into transparent sheets which are stronger than steel sheets of the same weight.

The article reports that researchers at Rice University in Houston, Houston, Texas, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, announced the development of a material that makes coal seem bright by comparison. The material, made up of loosely aligned carbon nanotubes, reflects just 0.045 percent of incident light. The material isn't exactly uniform; a slight randomness in the length and alignment of the tubes seems to minimize reflectiveness and maximize absorption of light. Up to now, the least reflective material was a film of nickel-phosphorous alloy.

The article reports that Texas-based Zyvex Corp. has formed a company, Zyvex Performance Materials, to commercialize its NanoSolve materials. The materials include functionalized multi- and single-walled carbon nanotubes, along with nanotube-containing resins and prepolymers. Zyvex Performance will be based in Columbus, Ohio to be close to the center of the advanced materials industry.