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Bucky Diamonds In The Rough

Phys. Rev. Focus 11, 4 (2003) – Published January 30, 2003

Carbon particles combining diamond and buckyball structures could form tomorrow’s optoelectronics.

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Close-Up of Atomic Cave-Dwellers

Phys. Rev. Focus 10, 4 (2002) – Published July 29, 2002

A new study gives the most detailed pictures yet of an industrially useful nanoscale sponge.

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Small Structures Act Big

Phys. Rev. Focus 8, 14 (2001) – Published September 13, 2001

The mechanical properties of a metal hold up even at nanometer scales.

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The Other Nanotubes

Phys. Rev. Focus 7, 12 (2001) – Published March 8, 2001

Nanotubes of boron and nitrogen have now been imaged in great detail in a set-up that insulates them from contamination.

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Buckyballs inside Nanotubes

Phys. Rev. Focus 6, 27 (2000) – Published December 19, 2000

Carbon nanotubes’ electrical resistance is changed when ‘buckyball’ cages of carbon atoms–with a single gadolinium atom in each–are placed inside the tubes.

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Carbon Stretched to the Breaking Point

Phys. Rev. Focus 5, 26 (2000) – Published June 7, 2000

Researchers have stretched ‘ropes’ of carbon nanotubes to their breaking point–the most direct measurements to date of the stength of nanotubes.

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Stretching Nanotubes

Phys. Rev. Focus 2, 27 (1998) – Published November 30, 1998

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Microscopic Graffiti

Phys. Rev. Focus 1, 12 (1998) – Published May 7, 1998