Growing Nanotube Forests (Science Out Loud S1 Ep5)
Channel: MITK12Videos
Date: 2014-06-09

What if we could grow elevators to space? Or make phones that last for weeks without a charge? These things could someday be possible someday with an amazing material like carbon nanotubes. Alex takes you behind the curious way researchers create this super-material.
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Awesome MIT videos on nanotubes, chemistry, mechanical engineering, MIT course materials, educator resources, and Alex's bio can be found here: http://k12videos.mit.edu/growing-nanotube-forests
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Hosted by: Alex McCarthy
Written by: Alex McCarthy
Additional scripting: Elizabeth Choe, George Zaidan, Tyler DeWitt
Science reviewer: Dr. Albert Liao 

Executive producer: Elizabeth Choe
Director: George Zaidan
Editors: Jessica Harrop, Per Hoel
Production assistants: Conor Olmstead, Dan Martin

Nanotube microscope images by Alex McCarthy

Music: Local Forecast - Elevator by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300012)
Local Forecast by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN13000100)
Corncob by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=corncob)

Special thanks: The John Kassakian group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics (http://www.rle.mit.edu/people/directory/john-kassakian/), David Jenicek of RLE, John Essigman and Simmons Hall