Costa Rican Electric Engineer Discovers New Antibiotic
- by crv.staff
- 20.08.10
- 8:11 AM UTC
- Filed in Costa Rica
Source : Costa Rica Pages
A Costa Rican Electric Engineer, Juan Scott Chavez, is doing some research on Carbon Nanotubes and their potential to kill certain bacterias and to cure a variety of diseases. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs also known as buckytubes) are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure. Diamond is of course the best known of all allotrope carbon! Thanks to their properties, nanotubes are useful in electronics, optics, material science, and lately in architectural fields. Because of their amazing strength and electrical properties , they are also widely used as thermal conductors.
Chavez is just back in Costa Rica and set himself up in Cartago, where he has been working as an engineer in the TEC (Costa Rican Institute of Technology), after having spent several months in California, in Long Beach, teaching and researching in the University of California. His work there eventually led him to the Carbon Nanotubes. Carbon Nanotubes works pretty much the same way as another mineral called Graphite that is used as a lubricant and to build cars, aircraft and golf clubs!
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