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Nature 450, 486-487 (22 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450486a; Published online 21 November 2007
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Materials science: Purity rolled up in a tube
Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos1 & Sang-Yong Ju1
Abstract
Before carbon nanotubes can fulfil their potential in device applications, better ways must be found to produce pure samples of them. A promising approach involves wrapping them up in a shell of polymer.
Formed simply by rolling up a two-dimensional sheet of graphite (graphene), single-walled carbon nanotubes — SWNTs — are wonder materials of modern materials science. They are phenomenally strong and stiff, and, unusually, are excellent conductors of heat along the tube's axis, yet good thermal insulators across it.
- Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos and Sang-Yong Ju are in the Nanomaterials Optoelectronics Laboratory, Polymer Program, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3136, USA.
Email: papadim@mail.ims.uconn.edu
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