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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 10, 2010 – Like a flame speeding along the length of a lit fuse, a powerful wave of energy can be created by using a laser to ignite a reactive-fuel-coated carbon nanotube. It could lead to a new way of producing electricity, said the MIT team that discovered the previously unknown phenomenon. Described as thermopower waves, the phenomenon "opens up a new area of energy research, which is rare," said Michael Strano, MIT's Charles and Hilda Roddey associate professor of chemical engineering. As with a collection of flotsam propelled along the surface by waves traveling across the ocean, it...Read full article

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    Published: March 2010
    Glossary
    entrainment
    The movement of particulate material by flowing gas or liquid.
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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