Whether you’re a graduate student testing a new electrode chemistry or an R&D engineer scaling the next battery system, you need carbon nanotubes, graphene, and advanced nanomaterials you can build on — materials with specs that hold and results you can reproduce. For 21 years, researchers and engineers have chosen our materials for exactly that.
The Work You Came Here to Do
Your research or product is the work only you can do. The best materials disappear into the background — doing exactly what the specifications promised — so you can focus on the rest.
When the materials work, your project succeeds. Papers hit their deadlines. Prototypes advance. Production runs meet their targets. Your best hours go to the questions only you can answer.
How to Work with Cheap Tubes
1. Find what you need.
Browse 100+ products in our catalog — carbon nanotubes (single-walled, multi-walled, functionalized, industrial grade), CVD graphene films, graphene oxide, graphene nanoplatelets, silver nanowires, and more. Each product page shows full specs, characterization data, and microscopy images. If you don’t see exactly what you need, ask us. If we can’t help, we’ll point you in the right direction.
2. Buy online or request a quote.
Standard research quantities ship from our catalog. Bulk orders, custom specifications, or large-volume purchases get a quote within one business day.
3. Ship with full documentation.
Every order includes a Technical Data Sheet (TDS) and Safety Data Sheet. Typical lead time 2–5 business days from our Townshend, Vermont shipping facility.
About Cheap Tubes
Cheap Tubes was founded in 2005 by Mike Foley in Townshend, Vermont. Mike needed nanomaterials for his own work and couldn’t find a supplier who consistently delivered what the specifications promised. So he built one.
Twenty one years and 10,000+ customers later, we’re still the same team — supplying researchers at universities, national labs, and R&D groups at companies like MIT, NASA, Rice, Harvard, 3M, and the US Army. Every order is backed by our published-specs guarantee: if the material doesn’t meet the spec, we replace it or refund you.
Research Resources & Guides
Working at the edge of what these materials can do? Our in-depth guides and technical references — written by the people who make and ship these materials — help you move faster.
- Graphene Batteries: An Insider’s Guide — what actually works in current battery development, from someone who has been shipping graphene to battery researchers for 15+ years.
- Solar Applications of Graphene — practical review of graphene’s role in photovoltaic research, with the literature that matters.
- Graphene Sensors — how graphene is changing chemical and biological sensing, with links to key papers and commercial applications.
- Nanotechnology Glossary — 100+ terms defined clearly for grad students, R&D engineers, and anyone new to the field.
The Material Shouldn’t Be the Bottleneck
First sample to full production. Great materials accelerate the work that matters. That’s what we’re here for.
