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Science 28 July 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5479, pp. 560 - 561
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5479.560
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Perspectives

NANOTECHNOLOGY:
Beyond Gedanken Experiments

Laszlo Forró

For future nanomechanical devices to be realized, sophisticated ways of manipulating small structures must be developed, and fundamental elements of macroscopic machines, such as switches and bearings, must be reproduced in the nanoscale. Forró highlights the nanotube nanobearings and nanoswitches reported by Cumings and Zettl and concludes that multiwall nanotubes are ideal starting materials for future nanodevices.

The author is in the Department of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. E-mail: laszlo.forro{at}epfl.ch

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