Good news for Rumpelstiltskin. Scientists have made another advance toward spinning the world’s strongest fibers out of molecule-thin nanotubes.
THIN LINE. With a series of 230 microscopy images, researchers visualized the entire length of their 4-centimeter-long carbon nanotube. A 1-millimeter segment of the tube is shown in these images.
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