Tiny tunable nanotubes (IMAGE)

Duke University

Tiny tunable nanotubes

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Scientists at Duke University have developed a method that switches a carbon nanotube from acting like a metal to acting like a semiconductor and back again, by wrapping it with a ribbon-like polymer.

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George Bullard

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