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Length selection produces single-chirality nanotubes

05 Jan 2023 Isabelle Dumé
Chiral varieties can be selected for production when feedstock is drawn away at specific speeds. The illustration depicts this and an analogous process used to describe the evolution of giraffes’ long necks due to the gradual selection of abilities to reach progressively higher for food.
Like a giraffe stretching for leaves on a tall tree, making carbon nanotubes reach for food as they grow may lead to a long-sought breakthrough. (Courtesy: Ksenia Bets/Rice University)
Theoretical physicists at Rice University in the US have proposed a practical new approach to growin

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