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Nanotubes

Known as: Nanotube 
Nanometer-sized tubes composed of various substances including carbon (CARBON NANOTUBES), boron nitride, or nickel vanadate.
National Institutes of Health

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2005
Review
2005
Chemically functionalized carbon nanotubes.
Since their discovery, carbon nanotubes have attracted the attention of many a scientist around the world. This extraordinary… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Engineering Carbon Nanotubes and Nanotube Circuits Using Electrical Breakdown
Carbon nanotubes display either metallic or semiconducting properties. Both large, multiwalled nanotubes (MWNTs), with many… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Strength and breaking mechanism of multiwalled carbon nanotubes under tensile load
The tensile strengths of individual multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were measured with a "nanostressing stage" located… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Extreme oxygen sensitivity of electronic properties of carbon nanotubes
The electronic properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes are shown here to be extremely sensitive to the chemical environment… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Individual single-wall carbon nanotubes as quantum wires
Carbon nanotubes have been regarded since their discovery1 as potential molecular quantum wires. In the case of multi-wall… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Exceptionally high Young's modulus observed for individual carbon nanotubes
CARBON nanotubes are predicted to have interesting mechanical properties—in particular, high stiffness and axial strength—as a… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Electrical conductivity of individual carbon nanotubes
THE interest in carbon nanotubes has been greatly stimulated by theoretical predictions that their electronic properties are… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Nanotubes as nanoprobes in scanning probe microscopy
SINCE the invention of the scanning tunnelling microscope1, the value of establishing a physical connection between the… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Boron Nitride Nanotubes
The successful synthesis of pure boron nitride (BN) nanotubes is reported here. Multi-walled tubes with inner diameters on the… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Large-scale synthesis of carbon nanotubes
INTEREST in carbon fibres1,2 has been stimulated greatly by the recent discovery of hollow graphitic tubules of nanometre… 
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