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Sensing from the bottom up

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Ultrasensitive nanomechanical transducers based on carbon nanotubes can be fabricated using a bottom-up assembly method.

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Figure 1: A carbon nanotube resonator.

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Poggio, M. Sensing from the bottom up. Nature Nanotech 8, 482–483 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2013.124

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