DESIGN AND DEPLOYMENT OF A SPACE ELEVATOR

Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon

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Materials Science, Engineering, Carbon-based Material +4

Crystalline Ropes of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

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Materials Science, One-dimensional Material, Nanosheet +15

Exceptionally high Young's modulus observed for individual carbon nanotubes

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Materials Science, Engineering, Carbon-based Material +6

Synthesis of Large Arrays of Well-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Glass

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Aligned Carbon Nanotubes, Engineering, Bottom-up Synthesis +19

Large-scale and low-cost synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes by the catalytic pyrolysis of hydrocarbons

Hui–Ming Cheng, Feixing Li, Ge Su et al. · Applied Physics Letters · 1998 · 707 citations

Engineering, Carbon Nanotechnology, Chemistry +18