Organic Nanotubes Mass Production Technique is Developed

Professors at Japan's Nanotube Research Center have developed a method for mass producing organic material based nanotubes that promises to provide cheap, safe storage without high pressure.

Just mixing an aqueous solution of metal salt and an alcohol suspension of peptide lipid gives the metal-complex-type ONTs. Exchange of proton of the lipids and metal cations occurs rapidly, and the original plate structures of the lipids convert into the nanotube structures within a few minutes. We can obtain more than 100 g dry nanotubes from 1 L solvent just by filtration. -- AIST Today