Molecule of the Week
July 9, 2007
Carbon nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes, called CNTs or bucky tubes (see buckminsterfullerene), are tubes of pure carbon a few nanometers in diameter and up to 2 cm long. They can be single walled, multiwalled (tubes within tubes), be electrically conducting or semiconducting, stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar, and fire proof.
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