Blade As 'Microcomb' (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

Blade As 'Microcomb'

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Surgical blades appear straight to the naked eye, but they actually have micrometer-scale fissures on their cutting edge. These fissures create a kind of "microcomb" that can be used to align carbon nanotubes.

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Yuntian Zhu, North Carolina State University

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