Electron microscope animation: Carbon nanotubes pulled into thread

First-ever animation of carbon nanotubes self-aligning into a thread, captured by an electron microscope (as far as I know).
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[@TechIngredients]

I have NEVER such a high quality seen an electron microscopic animation before and this is with vintage equipment. You really impress me!

[@kiwibob223]

Vintage equipment 😞we used exactly this model for real 20 years ago for my partner's postgraduate degree.

[@martinator9480]

@@kiwibob223 20 years ago...

[@-Graham]

@@martinator9480 2000 using something that at least looks like it was made in the 70's. I kinda see his point

[@PurpleHaze2k9]

Ayyyyy Tech Ingredients. Nice to see you here!

[@everythinghate666]

i was thinking the same thing, all hail king of the nerds. cant wait to see more

[@piotrfila3684]

I love the fact that you made carbon nanotubes and the thing you want to talk about the most is an animation

[@garret1930]

Threads of carbon nanotubes

[@piotrfila3684]

@@garret1930 I get that he didn't make terribly long nanotubes but still

[@garret1930]

@@piotrfila3684 absolutely, this is amazing and beautiful stuff. It's really cool.

[@desromic]

He talked about making nanotubes in a previous video.

[@jaggztech]

Because maybe someone's supposed to donate a more modern electron microscope to him (and he can donate his old one to me -- I'd use it to identify patients' pneumonia-causing bacteria without needing the slow lab-cultures). :D :/

[@Eigenbros]

The depth of knowledge Ben has is always pretty crazy. Animation turned out really nicely. 👌👌

[@Richard.Andersson]

Amazing video Ben. It's nice to see my old SEM still being used, I definitely gave it to the right person!

[@Richard.Andersson]

Here is an old video I made before I sent it from Sweden to Ben in California: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6iYgGWOntCMq9U Edit: Just to clarify, Ben kindly payed for the shipping, which was not cheap considering it weighs close to 300 kg (600 lb).

[@1943vermork]

👍

[@cantsolvesudokus]

Nice! Do you have a new one now?

[@Richard.Andersson]

@@cantsolvesudokus Unfortunately not, the one Ben has now was taking up too much space in my apartment hence I had to get rid of it. At approximately the same time period Ben was building his DIY SEM so I asked him if he was interested.

[@AppliedScience]

Much appreciated, Richard! I've had a great time using it.

[@icandreamstream]

This is super, super interesting. Looking forward to more content on this!

[@br6768]

I litterally said "Whoa" like Neo when he started pulling on the threads

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

This could also advance the science of how to make strong carbon nanotube wires and cables. A space elevator just got one step closer.

[@jmir33]

Love the idea of more SEM animations! SEM microscope images are cool, but adding panning, rotating and zooming to the images really makes them come alive!

[@Stefan_Kawalec]

"I hope you find that interesting" - a funny way of expressing understatements. Excellent and jaw dropping material. As always.

[@markbanash921]

I have been in the carbon nanotube field for almost 20 years. Anyone who says they understand this technology is lying. The true breakthroughs will come from tinkerers and experimentalists playing around like this. Keep going.

[@ChrisB257]

I admire your great patience doing this Ben... extraordinarily painstaking. Thanks for sharing a fantastic and fascinating result.

[@MLGJuggernautgaming]

Really glad to see the SEM back in action! It’s probably my favorite piece of equipment

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Buy a spinning wheel, knit some body armour.

[@dimitar4y]

CARBON NANOTUBE ARMOR! .... How good would that even be?

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@@dimitar4y I have no idea, I just dream of a really terrible looking knitted jumper, probably beige, but it can stop tank rounds of something. All soldiers looking like middle aged northerners. With attack slippers, pipe grenade and highly trained death whippets.

[@AnonEMus-cp2mn]

Carbon nanotube-coated kevlar armor has been on the market for years. The coating greatly improves the kevlar's structural integrity and shelf life, even making it waterproof. Bullets that are stopped by the kevlar weave tend to embed themselves in the material, but the coated armor can protect it enough for bullets to bounce or barely stick to the vest itself.

[@robert-wr9xt]

Did I ever tell you how awesomely scientific education you share and have shared? Completely impressed. I consider this channel as pure ‘information’. I have gained enough resolution to stop. Mad respect.

[@IanGrams]

Wow, that's honestly the most stunning electron microscope animation I've ever seen 🤯 Your technique of getting a continuous zoom with discrete input worked really well. Just as I was thinking "he ought to put some steppers on those knobs" you mentioned your plan to do just that 😄 Thanks for all your work feeding my curiosity!

[@jaydekaytv]

Wow! This is spectacular! Outstanding work! ⭐️🥇🏆 Thanks for sharing, love tuning in to see your projects! 👍

[@roderickwhitehead]

Man, 2 nights back I was binge rewatching old Applied Science vids... nice timing. Always a treat. Thanks, Ben!

[@parkerbossier]

You define this entire category on KZbin. Thanks so much for continuing to do what you do.

[@Quickened1]

The fact that you get all that you do, out of such an antiquated machine as that, is astounding! Can't imagine what you could achieve with a modern rendition... Awesome man...

[@GoldSrc_]

Your channel is just so good with the quality of content you post, and extremely interesting. So glad I found your channel years ago, keep up the good work.

[@ilikeyourname4807]

I agree but aren't you supposed to be silent?

[@lemonberries]

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[@TanyaSapien]

He typed that though. vow of silence not broken.

[@TanyaSapien]

@@lemonberries (λ)³ノ

[@reggiep75]

I've always loved SEM pics but this video and animation is groundbreaking and epic.

[@MrPhysicianist]

The quality of your videos and projects is exceptional! Thank you for sharing them with us!

[@TheNumbers400]

Frigging awesome. Glad to see you are back making videos.

[@bertholtappels1081]

Each time I think that you cannot top your last video in terms of quality, engagement, inspirational effect, educational value and general technical/scientific impact, you do. You continuously seed your audience with skills, ideas, and insights that they’ll carry with them into their scientific and processional careers, or journeys of curious discovery. Thank you.

[@supergiantbubbles]

That animation is so cool. Thanks for creating and sharing it with us all.

[@ColonelAngus101]

Love the video, love the way you use the SEM, reminds me of when we built the SEM in the garage by cutting the screen of the old oscilloscope (you get x-y control for free) and mounting it into the vacuum chamber to inspect flat panel display traces (if you energize them you can see them - sem can pick up 5V difference in float voltage). We got very wide field of view (>10cm) at high enough resolution. Post more!

[@TyCetto]

Beautiful work, thanks for taking the time to show me this amazing physical transition!

[@aSinisterKiid]

Incredible amount of effort put in for the animation. Great work Ben. I love your work. It's always fascinating.

[@_B_K_]

I am very excited about your plan to automate it. Definitely looking forward to those videos!

[@TurkishLoserInc]

As always, the quality of your videos are awe-inspiring. Thanks again for your contribution!

[@AlexDainisPhD]

This is incredibly cool and incredibly impressive. I am constantly awed by your skill and knowledge, but now also by your patience in collecting those frames!

[@trollenz]

Awesome project, as always... Love the idea of a CNC SEM 😂 Can't wait to see your implementation and new animations, brilliant.

[@luisca92]

This is awesome! I'm an animator and this tool would open up a world for me in terms of my animations. As soon as I saw it I thought stepper motors. I truly look forward to seeing this project. Thank you. You are doing something beautiful

[@aledirksen01]

Epic video. You make extremely marvelous videos here on KZbin and have so many equipments and knowledge and the know how to apply this and carry it out. Your work does not go unnoticed. We highly appreciate all this work and thank you for always being an excellent source of entertaining and educational Applied Sciene!

[@JWH3]

Thank you for all your work, your dedication and attention to detail is fantastic, every video is a real treat to get to watch.

[@brentpolk2431]

Ok...I watch a lot of scientific youtube videos and this is science PORN! Amazing job. We as a learned community of enthusiast don't get to see things like this often. BRAVO!

[@ikitclaw7146]

An extremely underrated channel, the work you put into this is amazing, please keep it up! getting closer to that 1mil mark now!

[@gavendb]

simply amazing. your channel has never ceased to amaze me. thanks for sharing your brain.

[@brucewilliams6292]

Incredible! I really love the stuff you do. Thank you for sharing!

[@gibbyrockerhunter]

Ben You are great. I love the content and all of your videos so far. I even found the few presentations not on your channel that were totally worth watching. After screwing around with many different ccd spectroscopes I finally have a PMT on the way! So thank you for your guidance. Previously you helped me with scattering silver on to glass. You really are an awesome human for sharing your knowledge. Thank you. If you plan on taking your delorean to half moon for another show you should totally let us know. Id love to thank you in person.

[@ronniepirtlejr2606]

Wow this is an amazing animation! Thank you so much for your hard work!

[@mduvigneaud]

Awesome, Ben! I really look forward to this as you work on it! :D

[@musicbro8225]

Great dedication to your goal, highly commendable! And the animation is impressive, nice on all counts.

[@nerdy1701]

That animation is really neat. Thanks for making such good content!

[@snoodthe5249]

thumbs up within the first 5 seconds of his video because of how much work and how awesome this guy is to share his interesting life....i can only hope to have half of the cool stuff he has made videos on.

[@aa55claa55cl]

this channel is one of the most technical channel on earth

[@EnUsUserScreenname]

Aww hell yeah, more content!

[@Arrogan28]

I have to say, any one of your videos would have me thinking the person behind it was very well versed in the subjects being discussed. But to see how many subjects you cover, and at the depth/degree you dive into them, it is really very humbling I must say. Most science video channels I don't feel intimidated at all, but this channel is a different story. You have to be one of the very brightest people on youtube. Again, namely because i don't think i have seen another channel that goes into the same depth on such a breadth of subjects. I don't know of another channel that comes close. Glad to see your subscriptions are growing, well deserved... thanks again for producing these, super interesting stuff...

[@scottcortus9590]

The animation turned out looking beautiful! All of your SEM stuff is awesome! It’s cool that you are using a retro SEM with modern acquisition tech, kind of like putting a modern supercharged motor in a classic car!

[@Coltography]

Amazing stop motion video, I'm beyond excited to see where you take this in the future!!

[@smh988]

600 stitched single frames, huh. "Painstakingly" must be an understatement. You document your (already) fascinating projects so well, and it's so interesting to see how you use mostly common tools to achieve remarkable things. Thanks for continuing with these posting.

[@TruthIsTheNewHate84]

I was waiting for this video. Nice work man. Really cool animation.

[@Streetsy]

I find these electron microscope videos really interesting. Thankyou.

[@kthfox]

this is amazing, i super look forward to the results of your hard work

[@andymouse]

Quite simply, wow!...can't wait to see this project mature.

[@brandonmack111]

Very cool! I'm pretty excited to see you upgrade it and get some really great animations from it :)

[@yutakazaiki4655]

Just great! Please continue such a valuable, precious, works!

[@armtgshnks]

This is amazing. Appreciate all the hard work.

[@Jay0neDE]

Man, I want to be you in 10 years! You've built an electron microscope, a laser, x-ray machine, made crazy glass that changes color in UV light and tons of other bleeding edge science things. I can't think of anyone who is so versatile and has so much knowledge about technologies of the future. I tip my hat to you Sir.

[@programorprogrammed]

Those are beautiful animations.

[@mannys9130]

That zoom decision was great. It worked very well! This video was awesome. 😎

[@longshot789]

Incredible video, fantastic capture

[@ThePowermountain]

Incredible! Fantastic work sir!

[@SwapPartLLC]

I love videos like this. I believe you could make an entire channel out of nanoscale animations.

[@thetruthexperiment]

I wish I could fund you to make hours of this kind of stuff. Nobody else is doing it and it's incredible.

[@ashwanishahrawat4607]

Thank you for your time consuming efforts, It was amazingly interesting and satisfying at the same time.

[@AttilaTheHun333333]

What a gem this channel is.

[@elishmuel1976]

after many many hours of watching your videos, I can only conclude that you, sir, are a genius.

[@jasonnoteboom4489]

While I don’t fully understand how you do what you do (though I learn much through your explanations), I certainly appreciate your passion for it. Thank you for sharing.

[@leoberges1705]

This is so wonderful, thanks a lot for making such an animation !

[@madmikewood]

You are probably the single most incredible channel on youtube

[@Singh_Malkiat]

Superb video animation on CNT. Amazing content as always.

[@CTP1111]

wow you never cease to amaze me

[@pufarinu]

amazing job Ben!

[@grexursorum6006]

I like you SEM-Videos the most. So interesting! thx

[@whatdamath]

What is this? A carpet for ants? Oh... I guess it is I miss working with electron microscopes. Last time I used a similar device I got to move iron metals around. It was exciting for about 2 minutes and after that I started questioning my life choices.

[@sypeiterra7613]

I would love to move little metal bits around

[@cobalius]

Do i see a wonderful person uwu? Yes, i guess

[@encryptedmaze]

Why question your life choices? Getting hands on and manipulating the very fabric of our reality itself sounds pretty epic to me.

[@phil1pd]

You're still a wonderful person.

[@ThePolysyllabist]

This was amazing from beginning to end

[@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff]

Incredible work!

[@eugeneputin1858]

This has got to be the most amazing thing I've seen by far

[@Filaxsan]

Amazing and super interesting as always!! Thanks for sharing!

[@Honk_Honk_Clown_World]

Incredible. Keep up the amazing work! 👌🏻

[@pn2543]

congratulations on a pioneering achievment!

[@kimmy_future4265]

That is very cool! Thank you for going thru all that for us!

[@Zardwark]

Ben continues to deliver top quality content to the internet and long may it go on! You know, I've always thought he missed a career in teaching, then I think, "Naah, we would have this channel?", and alas, selfishness wins every time :-) So little really top notch content out there, this stands out as a pearl.

[@buckrogers5331]

Thank you for this. Appreciate very much all yr time and effort!

[@allenschmitz9644]

Oh my..all that vintage eqpt....Iv been called a knob turner before, but you take the cake..the work that went into that video...yowza!

[@douglasharley2440]

this channel is amazing af. *respect*

[@colinsmyth9938]

So much work for this animation

[@jimbrookhyser]

Great vid! Can't wait to see the improvements.

[@fp4303]

I like how he makes far better science working on his shed than any experimental physics department I ever went.

[@TheNewton]

Thanks so much for these videos , it's amazing how important these videos are. There is a complete lack of good information on the graphene manufacturing process and carbon fiber. Almost everything is glossed over, hard to find or inscrutable. Like just looking into carbon fiber means having to sift through the mountains of "DIY carbon-fiber" thats about bloody vinyl stickers. But here you *literally* show discrete parts of it, thanks.

[@-Graham]

Trust Ben to be the one who teaches and old SEM dog new tricks! Great stuff!

[@robertforrester578]

Just plain old good work Brother. Thanks from Philadelphia

[@demoncloud6147]

Very satisfying to watch !

[@basisTermium]

Always loved your content keep it up!

[@andynz7]

Your videos just blow almost everything else on youtube clean out of the water!!

[@cabletie69]

Thanks for your work.

[@tubefish666]

Great presentation. Amazing how even with old hardware an intelligent mind can produce 1st class results.

[@alc5653]

you, sir, are a genius. i admire your work! looking forward to you next video!

[@Skunkhunt_42]

Thanks for sharing all you do sir!

[@n24913n]

This is so cool. You're an amazing human, so impressive!!

[@cherrybacon9790]

Only this channel entertains me on a date consisting of only 2's and 0's