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Nature Materials 3, 665 - 666 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1232

Nanotubes: A step in synthesis

Mildred S. Dresselhaus1

  1. Mildred S. Dresselhaus is at the Department of Physics and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. e-mail: millie@mgm.mit.edu


The extraordinarily high strength and stiffness of single-walled carbon nanotubes promises a myriad of unique applications, but many of these are reliant on the growth of ultralong, continuous nanotubes. A new synthetic procedure takes us a step closer to this goal.

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