How Carbon Nanotubes Will Change the World

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Credits:
Writer/Narrator: Brian McManus
Writer: Sophia Roberts


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Thank you to AP Archive for access to their archival footage.



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[RealEngineering]

Big thanks for Wendy sending over that clip of him in the gym. Nebula gang helping each other out.

[PracticalEngineeringChannel]

How about those graphics! Very cool video, as always. Thanks for not using the photo of me lifting weights.

[Felixkeeg]

As a chemist, I really gotta say: That was a damn good job of explaining orbitals and basic molecular bonding!

[acapellascience]

P orbitals actually look a lot more like dumbbells than their usual illustrations would suggest, especially the ones in the higher shells. We elongate them when we draw them, which is good for some things, but actually makes graphene's p-orbital pi-bonds a lot harder to intuit

[proparkour]

Imagine this guy starting a teaching series on basic concepts from physics and chemistry. School would be so much easier

[bread]

"Imagine the amount of cats we could confuse!"

-Real Engineering guy, 2021

[JaylonCmm]

"It will be on your final exam" I actually have a Chemistry final next week. Why put the fear in me?

[TheAhmet]

I literally just finished my final project for my biomaterials course and it was titles “Using Graphene to Improve Prosthetic Functionality” where we proposed a method of connecting nerves directly to prosthetics with graphene nanotubes to essentially great “graphene tube nerves” that act like a circuit between the body and a electronic prosthetic. Crazy how this video was just uploaded a few days before my presentation today.

[emmaodom]

The hybridization is so well explained in this video (I’m a chem major)! They should use it in general chemistry - I think it could make students actually like learning about MO and electron distribution

[joewickham]

Suppressed LC chemistry memories being unsurfaced as I watch this

[Jondiceful]

This video is by far the best and most informative educational resource on the subject of carbon nanotube I have yet encountered. Everything else I have seen has skipped over the chemical properties of the covalent bonds, much less explained them in such simple and straightforward ways. While other sources usually do discuss the engineering challenges in creating nanotubes, not one has gone into such depth much less had actual visuals and footage! I know I am probably sounding like a fanboy, but this video deserves more recognition for the amazing job he has done here. Keep up the good work!

[tanmaysharma]

Finally my knowledge of hybridization came to use, i always wondered why are they teach us this at school

[Gaetano.]

6:01
"Yes, it will be on your final exam"
This is stuff of literal nightmares
I never even took the midterm, and why am I in class in just my underwear?

[MsGrilo]

I'm a last year chemistry undergraduate student on my way to organic chemistry grad. Just loved how you explained chemical bonds and their implications on materials

[manic]

5 years from now: How scientists and engineers will revolutionize the world with Carbon Nanotumes in the next decade.

[diegosanchez]

"and yes, it will be in your final exam"
Me, studying materials science: 😭😭 i know.

[PnlBtr]

5:08 "I don't know what gym these nerds are going to" absolute gold, couldn't stop laughing.

[siddakid]

This video (specifically the part on carbon's hybridization) is why I'm going to pass my chemistry of materials exam tomorrow. Thank you so much Brian. I've been watching these videos for years but only now that I'm offically learning this stuff in college did my brain go "wait I've heard about this before!" and direct me to this video to subsidize my understanding.

[Cognitoedu]

Brilliant video, great explanation of the sp hybridisation!

[PatipanWongkleaw]

Oh my god, if you uploaded this during my highschool, things would have been a lot easier. He explain this at least 10x better than my chemistry professor.