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Nanotubes grow up

14 Aug 1998

Chinese researchers have created the world's largest ever carbon nanotube. They created the 2mm long nanotube using a new technique in which acetylene is passed over a catalyst in a nitrogen atmosphere (Nature 394 631).

The technique uses an iron-silica catalyst created by coating a quartz plate with an iron-silica so

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