Nanosponge Soaks Up Oil Spills

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• Carbon Nanotube Sponge Devours Oil
• Nanotube Sponge Soaks Up Oil [ Video ]
• Mauricio Terrones

Inside Science Buzzwords:

1. Carbon nanotube - A material made from extremely thin carbon tubes, thousands of times narrower than the width of a human hair.
2. Boron - The fifth-lightest chemical element, made from naturally occurring nuclear fission from cosmic rays, and found naturally in compounds in the Earth's crust.
3. Lipophilic - A chemical structure that is attracted to oil, is able to be combined with oil and/or can be dissolved in oil.