Nearly pure nanotubes from unusual catalyst
Date | 30th, Jul 2018 |
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Source | chemeurope.com - Scientific News Websites |
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Growing a batch of carbon nanotubes that are all the same may not be as simple as researchers had hoped, according to Rice University scientists.
Rice materials theorist Boris Yakobson and his team bucked a theory that when growing nanotubes in a furnace, a catalyst with a specific atomic arrangemen...