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Teslaphoresis at the nanoscale

19.04.2016

Like many other inventions of Nikola Tesla, the coil (transformer) named after him was used by scientists for various purposes, but in our time only one application was widely known - cognitive and aesthetic due to the formation of beautiful gas discharges. However, scientists at Rice University in Houston (Texas, USA) managed to find quite a practical use for the coil.

Using the powerful electric field of a Tesla transformer, the scientists made carbon tubes autonomously form an electrical circuit connecting two LEDs, and then used the energy from the same field to light the LEDs. Scientists called their method "Teslaphoresis" by analogy with electrophoresis, which in a broad, and not purely therapeutic sense, involves the movement of particles remotely under the influence of an electric field.

Teslaphoresis uses an antenna attached to a Tesla coil that broadcasts a high-voltage electric field into open space. In a process that scientists say resembles a tractor beam, they remotely oscillated positive and negative charges on each of the many thousands of single-walled carbon tubes. To do this, the researchers placed the tubes in an electric field, which then caused the tubes to connect into a circuit that turned out to be long enough to be used on a macro scale - the longest "wire" was 15 cm long.

In experiments, scientists managed to form chains of nanotubes at a distance of several tens of centimeters from a modified Tesla coil, which produces a very strong field. Moreover, there was enough energy to ensure the glow of the LEDs. According to the authors of the experiment, the ability of carbon nanotubes to self-assemble into long parallel formations can be further used to control self-assembly both on the micro- and macroscales.

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