Tiny Metal Balls Etching into Graphite Tunnels with
Diameters of Only one Thousandth that of a Human Hair / Porous Graphite as a
Material in Medicine and Battery Technology
The world’s smallest tunnels have a width of a few
nanometers only. Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and
Rice University, USA, have dug such tunnels into graphite samples. This will
allow structuring of the interior of materials through self-organization in the
nanometer range and tailoring of nanoporous graphite for applications in
medicine and battery technology.