A team led by John Hagopian, an optics engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight   
   Center in Greenbelt, Md., has demonstrated that it can grow a uniform layer of   
   carbon nanotubes through the use of another emerging technology called atomic   
   layer deposition    
   or ALD. The marriage of the two technologies now means that NASA can grow   
   nanotubes on three-dimensional components, such as complex baffles and tubes   
   commonly used in optical instruments.   
      
   "The significance of this is that we have new tools that can make NASA   
   instruments more sensitive without making our telescopes bigger and bigger,"   
   Hagopian said. "This demonstrates the power of nanoscale technology, which is   
   particularly applicable to a    
   new class of less-expensive tiny satellites called Cubesats that NASA is   
   developing to reduce the cost of space missions."   
      
    Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-07-nasa-milestone-emerg   
   ng-nanotechnology-video.html#nwlt   
      
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