{"title":"Carbon nanotubes and their recent developments","authors":"S. Iijima","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.1998.659812","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In his book published in 1985 Drexler proposed a molecular bearing consisting of two graphitic nanotubes of different diameter which are concentrically arranged (1992). It was a virtual operation inside a computer. This dream, however, has become more realistic by the discovery of carbon nanotubes by the author (1991). The discovery, unique atomic structures, production, growth, expected properties and some experiments on carbon nanotubes are reviewed.","PeriodicalId":340972,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings MEMS 98. IEEE. Eleventh Annual International Workshop on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems. An Investigation of Micro Structures, Sensors, Actuators, Machines and Systems (Cat. No.98CH36176","volume":"286 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings MEMS 98. IEEE. Eleventh Annual International Workshop on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems. An Investigation of Micro Structures, Sensors, Actuators, Machines and Systems (Cat. No.98CH36176","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.1998.659812","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In his book published in 1985 Drexler proposed a molecular bearing consisting of two graphitic nanotubes of different diameter which are concentrically arranged (1992). It was a virtual operation inside a computer. This dream, however, has become more realistic by the discovery of carbon nanotubes by the author (1991). The discovery, unique atomic structures, production, growth, expected properties and some experiments on carbon nanotubes are reviewed.