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Originally Posted by dbostwick
Do catalytic converters have any relation to carbon nanotubes?
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I acknowledge that uses for nanotubes, and patents, are popping up everywhere. However, catalytic converters ("catcons") as they are currently designed and made, have nothing to do with carbon nanotubes.
Catcons have been around for several decades. Originally, they were used in the petroleum refinement and synthesis industry. Then they became common in automobile engines as a way of removing NO2, SO2 and perhaps other contaminants from engine exhaust. None of these catcons used nanotubes--at least, until now.
Of course, in the future, who's to say? I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that some new high-efficiency catcon uses nanotubes.
