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Ah. Good ol' carbon nanotubes... The only application CNTs fail -completely- at, is leaving the laboratory. Unlike those pesky CNTs, I'll just see my way out

• lumost 5y ago
  This is a valid criticism. There are several threads in science that are seemingly funded indefinitely despite modest to negligible progress and other threads that are utterly starved for funding. Is there a bias at funding agencies that research in "carbon nanotubules" gets picked over "X research" year after year?
  • pfdietz 5y ago
    One long running research area that I'm reminded of is artificial photosynthesis. Let's make a combination PV cell and electrolytic cell, because optimizing both together is going to be totally easier than doing it separately. /s
    • lumost 5y ago
      From the perspective of a career minded professor sitting on a funding committee it's a good way to guarantee a growing set of citations. As long as people still research X the first papers in X will garner citations.
      • jalk 5y ago
        Oh like masers and lasers you mean ;-)