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Nature Physics 4, 266 - 267 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys924
Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Nanotechnology
Carbon nanotubes: Old nanotubes, new tricks
Jesper Nygård1
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Jesper Nygård is at the Niels Bohr Institute and Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
e-mail: nygard@nbi.dk
Abstract
Despite more than a decade of study, single-wall carbon nanotubes still have the ability to surprise. One recent study finds that in ultraclean nanotubes an unexpectedly strong spin–orbit coupling arises; another demonstrates their ability to support one-dimensional Wigner crystals.
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