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Free 1 g samples of single walled carbon nanotubes
http://ocsial.com/en/
They offer free samples of SWNTs. They probably expect the offer to go to potential customers but they don't specifically state that as a requirement.
So, it's worth a shot, especially if you have a business email
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ordered my sample. don't know how well it is gonna go over that my business is a drywall company... LOL. but we will see  thanks for the heads up
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Your company may be specialized in Reinforcing drywall with nanotubes powder..
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Great for Element Collections
You want to display as many forms of the pure element as you can, right?
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Precisely why I mentioned it!
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I put in an order, using my connection with the University of Minnesota.
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Ordered some in the name of my school. I couldn't justify turning that one down.
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I'll probably order some for kicks, but am unsure of what I could do with it. Ideas?
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To do much that is meaningful with materials like this usually requires a lab to support you. Research in battery electrodes, computing science,
electronics, that sort of thing mostly. Although materials science people also employ them.
The short answer may be to sell it on eBay and buy something you need. Element collectors will buy it.
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Anyone heard anything more from these guys?
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Nope, nothing so far.
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I haven't either, I was really hoping this would work.
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Their site says that the Tuball product is 75% nanotube carbon, 10% 'carbon', and 15% catalyst.
What's the catalyst ?
It also says that it's in 50g or 100g containers.
$8.7, presumably per gramme = $435 for 50g.
Are there 49 here people willing to pay $15 for 1g of this 75% carbon nanotube stuff ?
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Yeah, if there was enough momentum, I would. Probably a couple of grams. But I would like to find out what happened to the free sample first.
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Quote: Originally posted by aga  | Their site says that the Tuball product is 75% nanotube carbon, 10% 'carbon', and 15% catalyst.
What's the catalyst ?
It also says that it's in 50g or 100g containers.
$8.7, presumably per gramme = $435 for 50g.
Are there 49 here people willing to pay $15 for 1g of this 75% carbon nanotube stuff ? |
You could start a U2U subscription list, having people sign-up in advance to help establish whether this could fly for you.
This might be a good procedure for anyone considering a similar project.
I would sign-up for a gram.
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To be honest, i'd back such a project, but would not do it myself, purely due to the difficulties of actually Posting 49 x 1g samples out (i'm in
Spain).
If they're in the USA, then a USA based 'redistributor' would be better.
The $15 per g price point was to see if at a profitable level it would still be attractive.
3 takers so far including me !
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Yes, same lack of results here. Did anyone receive a phone call as they suggested we would? I didn't. I find this surprising for a large company who
clearly want to show their product to the marketplace.
"All Your Children Are Poor Unfortunate Victims of Lies You Believe, a Plague Upon Your Ignorance that Keeps the Youth from the Truth They
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I am guessing that they got a higher response rate than they expected, chose the obvious professional lab kind of places and ignored the rest.
If we had a enough people to share an order and someone to distribute then we might get better results. Under the circumstances I would be hesitant
to throw money in their direction before proper contact had been made.
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aga
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No surprises really.
They are offering free samples to try to Sell their product in quantity.
Can't complain if they prefer actual potential customers to us freeloaders.
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Dan Vizine
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Actually, they would have every reason to view my email as being from a potential client, since my company email was used and we're a gas purification
company.
I'm still not convinced that there is necessarily an issue. I'm sure I'm not the only one who used a scientific businesses' email account to request a
sample. Anyway, I've learned that you can never tell by an email return address if an email is important. Maybe 1 in 6 - 8 of university/industrial
customers use g-mail accounts to contact us, you just never know.
I think it may just be a volume related delay. Fingers crossed.
[Edited on 12-11-2014 by Dan Vizine]
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aga
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Perhaps their Graphetron machine has gone all Bucky on them, which caused the Balls up.
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They are looking mainly for volume resellers with an established customer base and the infrastructure inplace to distribute. Its not so clear from the
website, and gives a slightly wonky view of what they are wanting.
The concentration at present is on the above and those are the people getting there main attention.
Not sure it matters but the above is a condensed summary of a phone call to them, I have no need for there product etc but wondered why people didnt
just ask them, so I did
LG
P.S
I havnt looked them up for company profile etc as I cant be arsed, but I did get the distinct feeling they are not as super duper as they like to
think. I am probably wrong of course but I spoke with there partnership manager (couldnt understand his name as we still have phone and net trouble)
and he just didnt seem as polished as I expected from the web site
EDIT
Actually is anyone positive they make this stuff? I dont know why but my first gut reaction was they are resellers, I dont have shit to base that on
though
[Edited on 12-11-2014 by Little_Ghost_again]
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The website is quite amateurish by modern standards.
It appears to be a rough copy of 'Windows Tile' style.
I tried it in Russian to see if the 'font error' was due to Cryllic, but no, it looks the same.
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I'm starting to have my doubts that this will ever materialize. I mean, who would actually give samples of nanotubes out for free?
Turns out that's a rhetorical question. A start-up company called BNNT, LLC of Newport News, VA exhibited at the Fall Materials Research Society Expo.
in Boston. They were giving out free samples of boron nitride nanotubes, so much better than another pen or rolled-up periodic chart!
Using a laser guided synthetic procedure, they produce SW and MW BN nanotubes. While isoelectronic with graphene nanotubes, they possess a different,
and unique, set of characteristics. I'd estimate the volume of my sample to be about 1/3 of a cubic inch and it weighs 21 mg. This material can be
readily spun into fibers and threads. The strength is very high, just as you'd expect.
The static charge generated on the clear plastic jar it came in is strong enough to give this ultra-light sample the ability to appear to defy
gravity.
At the same conference, I saw another reference to ongoing production efforts to produce silicene.
And, even further off this thread's topic, whatever that may actually be, was the revelation that by using converging laser beams, ceramic cubes had
been surgically "gutted" to leave structural members only a few layers of atoms thick. These ceramic cubes could undergo 50% linear compression and
then rebound back! Flexible ceramics!
What a fascinating time to be a material scientist.
[Edited on 13-12-2014 by Dan Vizine]
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My sample came in the mail the other day! I think that a university email helped. Also included were a couple of material samples impregnated with the
tubes.
What to do with all this free stuff??
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