Nanotubes get into gear for new roll

From Minneapolis, at a meeting of the American Physical Society

Rolling, rolling, rolling. Keep those nanotubes rolling.

Carbon nanotubes are slender, hollow, cylindrical molecules of pure carbon. Extraordinarily strong and flexible, with intriguing electronic properties, the microscopic tubes offer scientists pure fascination (SN: 8/21/99, p. 127).

Now, Michael R.