Cnts history

The first published report of CNTs was in 1952 in a Soviet-era, Russian language journal, and therefore, not noticed.

The processor had 178 transistors made from CNTs and was roughly equivalent in processing power to the first processor Intel sold commercially in 1971.

A 1976 article demonstrated vapor phase growth of single wall carbon nanotubes.

In 1987 the USPTO issued a patent for the production of “Cylindrically discrete carbon fibrils” with diameters between 3.5 and 70 nanometers.

Since the initial rediscovery of the nanotubes in 1991, who discovered carbon nanotubes is no longer as important as who can come up with the most practical applications.

This helped the scientific community make more sense out of not only the potential for nanotube research, but the use and existence of fullerenes. It would be in 1993 that Iijima and Donald Bethune found single walled nanotubes known as buckytubes.

Since 1994, this has become a popular method for purification of nanotubes.

Laser ablation was first employed to produce carbon nanotubes in 1995.

In 1996 CNTs were first synthesized using a dual-pulsed laser and achieved yields of >70wt% purity.

3. “Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes”, R. Saito et al, Imperial College Press (1998) ISBN 1-86094-093-5

2. “Carbon Nanotubes and Related Structures : New Materials for the Twenty-first Century”, P. F. Harris, Cambridge University Press (1999) ISBN 0-521-55446-2

8. “Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Structure, Properties, and Applications”, M. S. Dresselhaus et al eds., Springer-Verlag (2000) ISBN 3-54041-086-4

In 2005, the year that a CNT composite bicycle won the Tour de France, annual global production capacity hovered around 0.2 kilotons.

By 2011, global CNT production capacity soared to about 4.6 kilotons per year. (The authors observe that a plethora of press releases promote new applications, but are skimpy on technical details.

In September of 2013 a research team at Stanford published an article in the journal Nature that described the first working CNT computer.

In March of 2014 a team at the University of Wisconsin led by Michael Arnold and Gerald Brady developed a technique they called "dose-controlled, floating evaporative self-assembly" that provides a solution to the alignment problem.

Intel's current top-of-the-line chips operate at a 14 nm scale and Intel plans to introduce 10 nm chips in 2017.

The keyword here is "immediate". On August 31 Fujitsu Semiconductor announced that they are licensing Nantero's CNT-based NRAM memory to appear in their products by the end of 2018.