Hi

how to make carbon nanotube at home? or cheaply?
just small quantity.

thanks

How close are we to being able to make high quality nanotubes of any length
we want, at prices the consumer market can afford? Is it likely to happen
this decade?

I can't comment on the price of these systems here is the link to two
companies that produce equipment used for cnt's
http://www.seocal.com/seki_products_detail.html
http://www.firstnano.com/prod_easy_fea.html

The first company has details on production rates for there equipment. If
anyone know the price for these products do tell as i may be interested in
purchasing a system to make cnt's in a few months for research my company
will be doing.
If anyone knows any other cmpanies or site's please do tell :-)

If your just looking for cheap nanotubes try http://www.microtechnano.com/
they have cnt's as low as $3 per gram

1. Carbon nanotubes are a unique platform of studying molecular transport & nanofluidics. The nanometer-size, automatically smooth surfaces and similarity to cellular water transport channels make them exceptionally suited for this purpose for a microfabricated carbon nanotube membrane chip with an optical microscope.

2.Water does not wet the outside surface of carbon nanotubes, we were skeptical that water would enter into them, let alone flow really fast,but the molecular dynamics simulations in the literature predicted fast flow, so we wanted to test the predictions for your safety.

3.The first time set up an experiment with water, left it overnight thinking that the water level above the membrane would not budge. Instead,came back in the morning and there was a little puddle on the floor under the membrane.