Precision production: nanotubes meet electronics requirements

Carbon nanotubes have been hailed as one of the materials most likely to usurp silicon in next-generation electronics that will require nanoscale device sizes. But the existing production techniques do not provide carbon nanotubes with the purity and structural specificity that are needed for electronics applications. Now, a collaboration of researchers in China have identified a catalyst that yields carbon nanotubes with a specificity almost 40% greater than previous methods, bringing the prospect of carbon-based nanoelectronic devices closer to reality…….

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Identical nanotubes can be grown from the new nanocatalysts