Superplastic carbon nanotubes

doi:doi:10.1038/439281a

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Superplastic carbon nanotubes

J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. Q. Wang, K. Kempa, Y. M. Wang, S. H. Jo, G. Chen, M. S. Dresselhaus & Z. F. Ren

Nature 439, 281(19 January 2006)

doi:10.1038/439281a

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Supplementary movie

An in situ HRTEM movie shows a kink that is emitted from the upper junction between the double-walled carbon nanotube segment and the multiwalled carbon nanotube, propagates along the nanotube, and finally disappears at the lower junction. The bias is 2.4 V and the current is 155 micro A during the kink motion. The images are acquired with a rate of 3 frames/s and are displayed with 2x2 speed. The image size is 86x86 nm².