Talk:Colossal carbon tube

Recent references?

If anyone is watching this page and may have more recent information on CCT, could you please identify sources for such? I can not find anything more recent than the references to the original article, which is 2 years old.I am concerned that this might have been a hoax, a premature publication, or may have been subsequently classified.

Aqm2241 (talk) 04:28, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

I can't imagine it being a hoax, given that the original discovery was published in Physical Review Letters, which has a great reputation for peer reviewing and fact checking, and the authors have published a lot of material relating to things like carbon nanotubes and graphene in prestigious journals. There was a 2001 paper presented at a conference in 2011 (abstract here that references CCTs in the context of a space elevator design. According to this, the paper had at least some sort of peer review. But it is puzzling that nobody has published any follow-up work on this technology, or filed patent applications. It doesn't make sense that further work is classified, given that if the U.S. government wanted to keep it as a classified Department of Energy project, it could have prevented its publication in the first place. And the U.S. government could not stop other researchers from doing follow-up work based on the published article. My guess is it's an issue of funding.COGDEN 23:50, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Another 7 years later: Nothing new?--Eheran (talk) 09:54, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Good bet that it’s garbage, Phys. Rev. or not.81.33.183.45 (talk) 19:53, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

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