The extraordinarily high strength and stiffness of single-walled carbon nanotubes promises a myriad of unique applications, but many of these are reliant on the growth of ultralong, continuous nanotubes. A new synthetic procedure takes us a step closer to this goal.
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Dresselhaus, M. A step in synthesis. Nature Mater 3, 665–666 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1232
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