Nanotube technology. Computer artwork of a spherical fullerene (buckyball, centre) seen inside a cylindrical fullerene (carbon nanotube). The molecula

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Nanotube technology. Computer artwork of a spherical fullerene (buckyball, centre) seen inside a cylindrical fullerene (carbon nanotube). The molecular models show the hexagonal carbon structure found in fullerenes, a structural form (allotrope) of carbon. Theoretically, a wide range of molecular shapes can be engineered at the molecular level using fullerenes. Such structures could have a wide range of technological and medical uses.

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