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Nanotubes get another glowing review

Tiny tubes made of carbon emit light when a current is passed through them.

References:

Bonard, J.-M. . . . W.A. de Heer, et al. 1998. Field-emission-induced luminescence from carbon nanotubes. Physical Review Letters 81(Aug. 17):1441.

Frank, S. . . . W.A. de Heer. 1998. Carbon nanotube quantum resistors. Science 280(June 12):1744.

Pichler, T. . . . R.E. Smalley. 1998. Localized and delocalized electronic states in single-wall carbon nanotubes. Physical Review Letters 80(May 25):4729.

Further Readings:

Lipkin, R. 1994. New metal fillings for carbon tubules. Science News 146(Dec. 24&31):421.

Perkins, S. 1998. Nanotubes: Metallic by a twist of fate. Science News 153(Jan. 10):22

Peterson, I. 1997. Cooking up carbon doughnuts. Science News 151(March 29):1196.

Wu, C. 1997. Nanotech: Bigger isn’t better. Science News 151(March 1):S14.

______. 1995. Carbon wires grow from tiny graphite tubes. Science News 148(Sept. 16):183.

______. 1995. Carbide whiskers shrink to nanometer size. Science News 148(July 8):22.

Sources:

Jean-Marc Bonard
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Départment de Physique
Institut de Physique Expérimentale
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

Web site: http://ipent.epfl.ch/gr_buttet/home.html

R.P.H. Chang
Northwestern University
Materials Research Center
2145 Sheridan Road, Room K111
Evanston, IL 60208
Web site: http://nuinfo.nwu.edu/materials/faculty/rphc.html.

Walt A. de Heer
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Physics
Atlanta, GA 30332

Richard E. Smalley
Rice University
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Mailstop 100
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251
Web site: http://cnst.rice.edu/reshome.html

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