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  • News & Views |

    Electrons driven through a suspended carbon nanotube by a constant bias excite mechanical vibrations — including self-sustaining oscillations — and, in some cases, even suppress them down to only a few quanta.

    • Martino Poggio
    •  & Nicola Rossi

  • News & Views |

    The electronic coupling between two stacked atomic layers is usually weak if their periodicities are incommensurate. Optical absorption experiments have now revealed unexpectedly strong interlayer coupling in incommensurate double-walled carbon nanotubes.

    • João Lopes dos Santos

  • Letter |

    Two concentric carbon nanotubes don’t need to have a common finite unit cell. Absorption spectra of such incommensurate double-walled carbon nanotubes reveal strong hybridization of the electron wavefunctions — unusual for van der Waals-coupled structures. The observations can be rationalized by zone folding the electronic structure of twisted-and-stretched graphene bilayers.

    • Kaihui Liu
    • , Chenhao Jin
    •  & Feng Wang

  • Research Highlights |

    • Iulia Georgescu

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