Down the straight and narrow
Article Abstract:
The synthesis of carbon nanotubes in large quantities by Ebbesen and Ajayan should open the way for developing microelectronic applications for these structures. The nanotubes, which are closely related to the fullerenes in structure, were created using a direct current discharge from one carbon electrode to another; the nanotubes formed into a geode-like cylindrical shell. The new nanotubes are far more rigid than existing carbon fibers, indicating a strength that will make them useful in electronic components.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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New tricks with nanotubes
Article Abstract:
Wildoer and colleagues and Odom and colleagues have provided evidence for the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes, that can be either metallic or semiconducting. These properties were predicted in 1992 and were tested using scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) probes. However single-walled nanotubes were found to have a broad range of helicities or chiral angles, and the 1D density of electronic states of chiral nanotubes was puzzling.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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Nanotube antennas
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Antennas are familiar as detectors and transmitters of radio waves, and it is stated that an array of aligned carbon nanotubes can behave as an electromagnetic antenna. The polarization effects in carbon nanotubes are observed by several groups, in experiments on bundles of multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNTs) and of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), individual metallic SWCNTs and individual semi conducting SWCNTs.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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