New research has shown how plasma causes exceptionally strong, microscopic structures known as carbon nanotubes to grow

PPPL physicists report that they created the phenomenon in a laboratory setting where they could measure it directly and confirm its existence on the electron scale

The results are among the first obtained from PPPL's National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade

Techniques could be economically attractive, ideally leading to a reevaluation of how nuclear waste is processed

The 3-D printing scene, a growing favorite of do-it-yourselfers, has spread to the study of plasma physics. With a series of experiments, researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have found that 3-D printers can be an important tool in laboratory environments.