As inventors in the early 1900s vied to devise the best incandescent lightbulb, tungsten won out over carbon for making filaments. Today, however, there’s a form of carbon that was unknown back then—the carbon nanotube.
WATTS NEW? A controversial study suggests that lightbulbs with filaments made from ultrasmall carbon tubes (right) outshine conventional bulbs (left).
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