Purity rolled up in a tube | Nature

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Before carbon nanotubes can fulfil their potential in device applications, better ways must be found to produce pure samples of them. A promising approach involves wrapping them up in a


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Papadimitrakopoulos and Sang-Yong Ju are in the Nanomaterials Optoelectronics Laboratory, Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut


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CITE THIS ARTICLE Papadimitrakopoulos, F., Ju, SY. Purity rolled up in a tube. _Nature_ 450, 486–487 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/450486a Download citation * Published: 21 November 2007


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