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Materials Science: Nanotube composites
Pulickel M. Ajayan1 & James M. Tour2
Abstract
A carbon revolution has occurred — carbon atoms can be coaxed into several topologies to make materials with unique properties. Nanotubes are the vanguard of this innovation, and are on the cusp of commercial exploitation as the multifunctional components of the next generation of composite materials.
Why do we need composite materials?Composites, which are formed from two or more distinct materials, have desirable combinations of properties that aren't found in the individual components.
- Pulickel M. Ajayan is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA.
Email: ajayan@rpi.edu - James M. Tour is in the Departments of Chemistry and of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and the Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, MS 222, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
Email: tour@rice.edu
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