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Science 27 April 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5517, pp. 650 - 651
DOI: 10.1126/science.1060379
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Perspectives

NANOTUBES:
Burn and Interrogate

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

Nanotubes can be semiconducting or metallic depending on their diameter and chirality. This feature is very interesting for many applications. In her Perspective, Dresselhaus highlights the reports by Ouyang et al. and Collins et al., which advance our understanding of the nanotube conduction process substantially and help us move toward applying this knowledge in nanoelectronics.

The author is at the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: millie{at}mgm.mit.edu

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