In the early 1990s, a chance finding in a Japanese laboratory introduced the world to carbon nanotubes. Today, interest in the tubes is still growing. Philip Ball reports on a decade of discovery.
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Ball, P. Roll up for the revolution. Nature 414, 142–144 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35102721
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