Carbon nanotubes have been on researchers’ A list of promising materials for a decade. However, these tiny tubes–each essentially a rolled-up sheet of graphite about a nanometer wide–are a diverse lot. That’s made it tough for scientists to know what kinds of tubes they have in hand, and those with different diameters and structures can have very different properties.
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