Researchers seed, heat and grow carbon nanotubes in long tubing: "'The work took us three years to develop and get right, but now we can essentially anchor nanotubes to a tubular wall. No one has ever done anything like this before,' said lead researcher Somenath Mitra, PhD, professor and acting chair of NJIT's Dep't of Chemistry and Environmental Science. Graduate and post-doctoral students who worked on the project are Mahesh Karwa, Chutarat Saridara and Roman Brukh.

The ground-breaking method will lead to improvements in cleaner gasoline, better food processing and faster, cheaper ways to clean air and water.

The discovery was recently described in the Journal of Material Chemistry, June 14, 2006, by Mitra and his team in 'Selective Self-assembly of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Long Steel Tubing for Chemical Separation.' Other journals featuring their work are Chemical Physics Letters and Carbon and Analytical Chemistry. "