UCLA Gets Award for Developing New Carbon Nanotubes

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) a $4.5 million (€3.26 million), four-year grant for the development of advanced types of carbon nanotubes (CNT).

These tiny constructs have tremendously complex applications in anything from optics and medicine to space exploration and nanotechnology. As such, any advancement in how they are produced or the chemicals they contain could improve their uses even further.

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science expert Larry Carlson, the leader of the Easton Institute of Technology Advancement and the director of new materials at UCLA Engineering, is the principal investigator on the new study.