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'Nanotube speakers' pave way for silent stealth submarines | Scientists have created speakers made from carbon nanotube sheets, with properties that make them ideal for submarine sonar to probe the ocean depths and make subs invisible to enemies. These "nanotube speakers" are a fraction of
the width of a human hair can both generate sound and cancel out noise. Ali Aliev
and colleagues explain that thin films of nanotubes can generate sound waves via
a thermoacoustic effect. Every time that an electrical pulse passes through the
microscopic layer of carbon tubes, the air around them heats up and creates a
sound wave. Chinese scientists first discovered that effect in 2008, and applied
it in building flexible speakers. In a remarkable demonstration, which made its
way onto YouTube, the Chinese nanoscientists stuck a sheet of nanotubes onto the
side of a flag, and attached it to an mp3 player. They used the nanotube-coated
flag to play a song while it flapped in the breeze. But they did not test its
ability to operate under water. Aliev's group took that step, showing that nanotube
sheets produce the kind of low-frequency sound waves that enable sonar to determine
the location, depth, and speed of underwater objects. They also verified that
the speakers can be tuned to specific frequencies to cancel out noise, such as
the sound of a submarine moving through the depths The study has been published
in ACS' Nano Letters, a monthly journal. |
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