The research team discovered that the large surface area of newspapers provided an unlikely but ideal way to chemically grow carbon nanotubes."With our new research, we have found a continuous flow system that dramatically reduces the cost of both substrate and post-synthesis process which could impact on the future mass manufacture of single-walled carbon nanotubes," added Barron.end-ofTags: carbon nanotubes, newspapers, 5g antennae, rice university."Newspapers have the benefit of being used in a roll-to-roll process in a stacked form making it an ideal candidate as a low-cost stackable 2D surface to grow carbon nanotubes," said the lead researcher Bruce Brinson.The new study, published in the -- MDPI Journal C -- details the research experiments carried out in producing carbon nanotubes which could have the potential to solve some of the problems [...]