Nanotubes assemble Rice introduces Teslaphoresis

Carbon nanotubes in a dish assemble themselves into a nanowire in seconds under the influence of a custombuilt Tesla coil created by scientists at Rice University. But the scientists don t limit their aspirations for the phenomenon they call Teslaphoresis to simple nanowires. The team led by Rice research scientist Paul Cherukuri sees its invention as setting a path toward the assembly of matter from the bottom up on nano and macro scales. There are even hints of a tractor beam effect in watching an as