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Image by Christian Schönenberger - University of Basel, Switzerland

Planar chemical vapour deposition (CVD) growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), grown from an iron containing catalyst that is patterned on a silicon substrate.

CNTs are cylindrical molecules with intriguing properties which make them potentially useful in many nano-scale applications; optics and electronics being but two of these. They are incredibly strong, possess unique electrical properties and are very efficient conductors of heat.

Nanotubes form part of a structural family known as fullerenes and are so called because of their size, which is approximately 50,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

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