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carbon nanotube
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carbon nanotube
n.
A fullerene having a cylindrical or toroidal configuration.

carbon nanotube
The most common form of nanotube, composed entirely of carbon atoms. See more at nanotube.
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Noun1.carbon nanotube - a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape
fullerene - a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms


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There has been great interest in the revolutionary electrical, mechanical and thermal properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) since their discovery in the early 1990s.
Taking single-walled carbon nanotubes to the laboratory of Brown neuroscientist Diane Lipscombe, the research team zeroed in on ion channels located at the end of neurons' axons.
The latter have not been studied as much as single-walled carbon nanotubes, although they were discovered first and their mechanical properties are different from those of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
 
 
 
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