Volcanic ash could be used to mass-produce Carbon Nanotubes

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Volcanoes could be used to churn out large quantities of carbon nanotubes and nanofibres, researchers say. They found cooled volcanic lava to be a surprisingly efficient ready-made chemical trigger for synthesising the nanostructures.

 

Dang Sheng Su and Xiao-Wie Chen at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany, used lava collected from Mount Etna in Italy to chemically synthesise nanoscale carbon structures in the lab.

 

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