Nanotubes
Elongated carbon molecules that resemble long tubes and are formed of the same pentagonal patterns of carbon atoms as buckyballs. Nanotubes can perform the electronic functions of silicon-based components. Due to their size, they can possibly provide very high densities of computation. Nanotubes are a likely technology to continue to provide the exponential growth of computing when Moore"s Law on integrated circuits dies by the year 2020. Nanotubes are also extremely strong and heat resistant, thereby permitting the creation of three-dimensional circuits.
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Fullerenes and Nanotubes at EPFL
The present focus of our research is on materials with novel electronic properties: fullerenes, fullerides, nanotubes, superconductors and biological structures.
New Carbon Material Research at Washington University
We are a laboratory located in the physics department at Washington University in St. Louis. Our major interests are synthesis and properties of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes and nanofibers, fullerenes, and how materials synthesis at the sub-micron scale can impact the biological sciences.